TakeCARE
Problems addressed
Sexual violence
Interpersonal violence or injuries
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Life periods served
Teenagers (14 to 17 years)
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Where the program was applied
Education establishment
Country of application
United States
Description

This is a sex education program for high school and college students. The aim is to reduce sexual aggression and increase witness reporting.
This is a brief intervention carried out using audiovisual activities transmitted online. University students follow the self-administered activity model, while high school students are accompanied by the school staff.
The intervention addresses the characteristics of healthy and abusive relationships, teaches how to identify situations of sexual aggression and potential aggressors, and provides guidance on what to do when witnessing situations of this kind and to prevent episodes of violence.

Impact evaluations

Impact evaluation studies have shown that students who watched the intervention video reported greater “bystander behavior” (i.e., acting to stop the observed abuse) after the six-month follow-up period. Higher levels of bystander behavior were also observed in the virtual reality simulations after the intervention and after the six-month follow-up period [1] [2] [3].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Jouriles, E. N., McDonald, R., Rosenfield, D., Levy, N., Sargent, K., Caiozzo, C. & Grych, J. H. (2016). Takecare, a Video Bystander Program to Help Prevent Sexual Violence on College Campuses: Results of Two Randomized, Controlled Trials. Psychology of Violence, 6(3), 410–420. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000016

[2] Sargent, K. S., Jouriles, E. N., Rosenfield, D. & McDonald, R. (2017). A High School-Based Evaluation of TakeCARE, a Video Bystander Program to Prevent Adolescent Relationship Violence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46(3), 633–643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0622-z

[3] Jouriles, E. N., McDonald, R., Rosenfield, D. & Sargent, K. S. (2019). Increasing bystander behavior to prevent adolescent relationship violence: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(1), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000355

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