Strategies for Implementing GlobalConsent to Prevent Sexual Violence in University Men

Summary

This project, SCALE, will be the first to compare lower-intensity (standard) and higher-intensity implementation strategies to deliver GlobalConsent-an efficacious web-based sexual violence prevention program-to men attending seven universities across Vietnam. Following a rigorous, mixed-methods, comparative interrupted-time-series design, researchers will collect novel data to compare implementation fidelity, drivers and outcomes, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness across implementation strategy groups. This partnership includes universities also engaged in a violence-prevention training grant (D43TW012188), offering an unparalleled opportunity for capacity strengthening and evidence generation to guide national leaders on the best strategies for launching GlobalConsent at scale, addressing a sex-differentiated risk factor in adolescence, and thereby improving a range of health outcomes into adulthood.

Conditions

• Violence, Sexual

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

High-intensity implementation strategies (HIS)-Students

Students in the HIS group will receive educational outreach in a pre-implementation in-person orientation to GlobalConsent, covering similar topics and three monthly one-hour learning sessions during implementation in which technical questions about program access or progression can be addressed; more intensive intervention to enhance adherence with more frequent email/Short Message Service (SMS), completion reminders; and demand generation encouraging program completion.

BEHAVIORAL

Low-intensity implementation strategies (LIS) for Students

Students in the LIS group will receive basic implementation strategies of the GlobalConsent often used to deliver online programs at US universities with email/SMS completion reminders with a predetermined frequency for 12 weeks.

OTHER

High-intensity implementation strategies (HIS) for Faculty

* Passive access to web-based educational materials * Town halls (3) with general faculty to define sexual violence; rates in young people; acute/chronic effects over the life course; primary-prevention evidence-based interventions (EBIs)

OTHER

Low-intensity implementation strategies (LIS) for Faculty

Passive access to web-based educational materials

OTHER

High-intensity implementation strategies (HIS) for Leaders

* Site-specific invitation to participate * Passive access to web-based educational materials * One pre-implementation webinar to define sexual violence; rates among young people in Vietnam; acute/chronic effects over life course; primary-prevention EBIs; recap of project description and collaboration; share GlobalConsent website for passive access to educational materials * Monthly emails from trained internal facilitators to university leaders with updates on implementation progress * One post-implementation webinar to share anonymized findings (by IS group); discuss plan for sustainment (including guidance on how to handle reporting of sexual violence in existing university counseling centers)

OTHER

Low-intensity implementation strategies (LIS) for Leaders

* Site-specific invitation to participate * Passive access to web-based educational materials * One pre-implementation webinar to define sexual violence; rates among young people in Vietnam; acute/chronic effects over life course; primary-prevention EBIs; recap of project description and collaboration; share GlobalConsent website for passive access to educational materials

OTHER

High-intensity implementation strategies (HIS) for Implementation Team Members

* Passive access to web-based educational materials * In-person technical training on campus-wide implementation of GlobalConsent; discussion and demonstration of GlobalConsent program; standardized implementation manual * In-person leadership training to champion GlobalConsent with internal stakeholders (leaders, implementation teams, faculty, students); leadership styles; managing teams; influence without authority; managing conflict; emotional intelligence; negotiation; leading change * Biweekly (six) 1-hr recorded quality-improvement team webinars to provide refresher training; assess implementation progress; assess modifications; build peer-network; provide anonymized data on implementation progress for discussion

OTHER

Low-intensity implementation strategies (LIS) Implementation Team Members

* Passive access to web-based educational materials * In-person technical training on campus-wide implementation of GlobalConsent; discussion and demonstration of GlobalConsent program; standardized implementation manual

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

  collaborator NIH

• Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population

  collaborator OTHER

• Georgia State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Emory University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kathryn Yount, PhD · Emory University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

QUADRUPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-03-27

Primary Completion

2028-02-29

Completion

2028-02-29

Countries

• Vietnam

Study Locations