Examining the Effectiveness of the myPlan App to Prevent Dating Violence With Adolescents

Summary

Intimate partner violence (IPV), including violence in teen dating relationships \[teen dating violence (TDV)\], is a common and a serious threat to adolescent health, safety, and well-being. TDV may include psychological/emotional abuse, sexual harassment or coercion, stalking (including cyberstalking), and physical or sexual violence. For many, the first experience of violence is in a dating or casual relationship with a partner or acquaintance during adolescence. Therefore, the objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of an adapted version of the myPlan app for adolescents (ages 15-17 years) to prevent and respond to TDV. myPlan is an app available for mobile download or by web browser that interactively assists users to assess the health and safety of user's intimate relationship, receive personalized strategies on how build healthier relationships, stay safe and healthy while navigating an unsafe relationship, and get connected to support and resources.

Conditions

• Intimate Partner Violence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Personalized Healthy Relationship and Safety Planning Tool

The app delivers evidence-based information and resources in three sections: My Relationship: contains a series of activities (e.g., "quizzes") to raise awareness of common myths about unhealthy relationships, determine characteristics of healthy relationships, examine the red flags in an unhealthy relationship, and assess risk factors for more severe abuse. Participants are provided with personalized messages about their relationship health and safety based on the answers they endorse. My Strategies: personalized strategies to increase participants' safety and well-being based on responses in the previous section. My Resources: direct links to the National Dating Abuse hotline, textline, and chatline, as well as personalized health and safety resources.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care Teen Relationship and Health Website

The control group website will provide participants with tools to learn about health topics including examining healthy relationships. The resources will be targeted to adolescents. The control group website is not personalized to the participant or their relationship.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  collaborator FED

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  collaborator OTHER

• Johns Hopkins University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Nancy E Glass, PhD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-12-06

Primary Completion

2022-08-25

Completion

2022-08-25

Countries

• United States

Study Locations