Sexual Harassment
Conditions
Keywords
Sexual Harassment Prevention, Educational Online Training, Video Game Elements, Upstanding
Brief summary
The study targets three aims: Aim 1: focuses on PIs' and mentors' confidence in their ability to intervene on sexual harassment and their attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge (APK) about sexual harassment, civility, microaggressions, and unconscious bias. Aim 2: focuses on trainees' experiences of sexual harassment and microaggressions and civility, sense of belonging, well-being, productivity, and persistence in a research career. Aim 3: focuses on the culture and climate of the research learning environment.
Detailed description
Participants (PIs, mentors, and trainees), starting in year one, will be asked to complete a baseline survey (using the secure survey software Qualtrics) regardless of condition assignment. Then, for several months, PIs, mentors, and mentees will receive virtual educational materials (presented using a Learning Management System) appropriate to the condition to which their program has been randomized. The initial post-survey for PIs and mentors will be shortly after the final module to evaluate short-term outcomes, encompassing attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge. Subsequently, the second post-survey will be administered one year later. Trainees will participate in three post-surveys: one immediately after, another one year later, and a final one two years later.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALE-STOP online educational program (treatment condition)
Participants access online video modules through an online learning platform. Program includes modules on civility and upstander interventions and education about sexual harassment, microaggressions, and implicit bias.
BEHAVIORALE-STOP online educational program (control condition)
Participants access online video modules through an online learning platform. Program includes authorship ethics only.
Sponsors
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Stanford University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* PIs, Mentors and Trainees of T-32 Programs
Exclusion criteria
* People who are not PIs, Mentors and Trainees of T-32 Programs
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Confidence to Intervene on Sexual Harassment Scale Score | Survey at baseline, immediately post-intervention (9 months after baseline), and 1 year after the completion of the 9-month intervention | Participants are asked to rate: How confident are you in your ability to intervene when you hear about or witness sexual harassment? Score range: 1 (not at all confident) to 5 (extremely confident). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Persistence in research careers | baseline, immediately post-intervention (9 months after baseline), and 1 year after completion of the 9-month intervention. | Participants are asked to rate: How extensively do you expect to be involved in research during your medical career? Score range 1 (not involved) to 5 (exclusively) |
| Experiences of sexual harassment as measured by the short Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ-DoDs) | baseline, immediately post-intervention (9 months after baseline), and 1 year after completion of the 9-month intervention. | The SEQ consists of 4 domains: gender harassment--sexist hostility (4 questions); gender harassment--sexual hostility (4 questions); unwanted sexual attention (4 questions); and sexual coercion (4 questions); the score for each question ranges from 1 (never) to 5 (many times); scores for questions within each domain are summed and divided by the number of questions, resulting in an average score range from 1 (never) to 5 (many times) for each domain. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed