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Trial reportPediatrics2021

A Dating Violence Prevention Program for Middle School Youth: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

Jeff R Temple, Elizabeth Baumler, Leila Wood, Melanie Thiel, Melissa Peskin, Elizabeth Torres

Registry-linked trialAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02909673 (Cluster Randomized Trial of School Based Program to Prevent Teen Dating Violence), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02909673 nacompletednot on this map

Cluster Randomized Trial of School Based Program to Prevent Teen Dating Violence

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe University of Texas Health Science Center, HoustonRan2018 to 2023Enrolled3,028ConditionsViolenceArmsFourth R
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Effects of a Middle School Dating Violence Prevention Program on Depression at 5-Year Follow-Up.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025
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  4. Racial Discrimination and Interpersonal Violence in Asian American Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024
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  5. Drills or Distress? Understanding the Psychological Effects of Active Shooter Drills on Adolescents.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2026
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  7. Engagement with a Text Message Booster to Extend a School-Based Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026
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  11. Teen dating violence and the COVID-19 pandemic: trends from a longitudinal study in Texas.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jeff R TempleCenter for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas jetemple@utmb.edu.
Elizabeth BaumlerCenter for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Leila WoodCenter for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Melanie ThielCenter for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Melissa PeskinUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas.
Elizabeth TorresCenter for Violence Prevention, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.

Funding

Long-term effectiveness of a middle school dating violence prevention evaluation with and without an SMS booster.R01HD083445 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI Jeff R Temple · 2016 to 2026
$6.2M
Parents, partners, and family: Continuation of a long-term longitudinal study on partner violence (Dating it Safe)R01HD099199 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI Jeff R Temple · 2020 to 2026
$3.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD083445NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD099199
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial to test the a priori hypothesis that students attending an intervention middle school would be less likely to report physical adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) 1 year later compared with students attending a control school. Secondary objectives were to determine if the intervention reduced substance misuse, bullying, and fighting.

methodsTwenty-four Texas public middle schools were matched by the size of student enrollment, number of economically disadvantaged students, and race and ethnicity of the student body and randomly assigned to the intervention (

resultsParticipants (50% female) self-reported ethnicity as Hispanic or Latinx (35%), Black or African American (24%), Asian American (17%), White (8%), and multiethnicity or other (16%). Among those who have dated, students in the intervention schools were less likely to report perpetrating physical ARA (intervention = 14.9% versus control = 18.3%) relative to students in the control schools (adjusted odds ratio, 0.66; 95% confidence interval, 0.43-1.00;

conclusionsThe middle school version of

Indexed as

Program EvaluationStudentsAdolescentAggressionBullyingConfidence IntervalsFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansInterpersonal RelationsIntimate Partner ViolenceMaleOdds RatioPhysical AbuseSchoolsSubstance-Related Disorders

Identifiers

PMID34615696
PMCPMC9645690

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