Evaluating a prevention program for teenagers on sexual coercion: A differential effectiveness approach.

Abstract

The authors evaluated a coeducational program for teenagers on preventing sexual coercion in dating situations. Students examined individual and social attitudes underlying coercive sexual behavior and learned communication skills aimed at preventing or dealing with unwanted sexual advances. Instruction was enhanced by video and an interactive video "virtual date." Outcomes were assessed using sexual attitude scales with a sample of 458 high school students. Student health education classes were randomly assigned to either a treatment or a control condition. Findings, based on a latent variable model of differential effectiveness, showed that students in the treatment group with initial coercive attitude scores at or above the mean benefited significantly more than students with the same range of scores in the control group.

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“…43,44,[57][58][59] Eight papers include multiple testing of data for analyses that were apparently determined post hoc, making at least some of the analyses exploratory rather than confirmatory. Some of these do not report correction for multiple testing or the processes used for this are unclear, [45][46][47][48]60 while others report at least some correction for this. 49,60,61 Technically, the findings arising from the pilot studies and from the exploratory findings should only be used for generating hypotheses for future studies, as they are not designed to provide definite answers to the questions they pose.…”

“…Nine distinct trials were reported among the 13 papers; eight of these used some kind of clustering design. Eight were based in the USA (reported in nine papers) [43][44][45][46][47][48][49]53,54 and one in Canada (reported in two papers). 50,56 The date range was 1997-2013.…”

“…Thirteen papers reported on controlled trials [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55] which involved nine different programmes. Nine distinct trials were reported among the 13 papers; eight of these used some kind of clustering design.…”

“…As for the randomised trials, in five studies where baseline measures were reported, there was clear imbalance, which was reported as corrected in all aspects for two studies 66,67 but not in the other three. 46,59,61 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE PUBLISHED LITERATURE NIHR Journals Library www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk…”

“…Among the four studies with obvious differences at baseline, 43,[45][46][47] only two controlled for these. 45,47 The imbalances included important demographic variables (such as gender or school grade/age).…”