Family violence, exposure to violence, witness violence, sexual and reproductive health, children, adolescents, young adults, e-health, RCT, mental health. Partner geweld, familiaal geweld, huiselijk geweld, getuige van geweld, seksuele gezondheid, reproductieve gezondheid, relationele gezondheid, e-health, psychische gezondheid, jongere, adolescent, kind
Conditions
Interventions
“Feel the ViBe” is an internet-based intervention without face-to-face elements. “Feel the ViBe” is based on the theory that self-help, by means of peer-support and information, is an effective way of
Sponsors
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants are adolescents in the age of twelve to twenty-five years old, exposed to family violence at home. Any adolescent encountering family violence at home, whether this is direct or indirect, is considered to be exposed to family violence. Inquiring participants about the type and severity of the violence as part of the inclusion procedure would enlarge the threshold for participation. We therefore choose to consider every participant eligible as target group.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Since the internet-based self-support method is in Dutch, participants who do not speak the Dutch language are excluded. If, during the intervention period, a participant proves to be not a member of the target group, he/she is asked about the reason for his/her participation. The community manager will discuss this reasons anonymously with the supervising research team and decides if the participant is permitted to continue or will be excluded from further participation. In either case, his/her data are not being used in the evaluation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| 1. The Impact of Event Scale (IES) will be used to measure PTSD symptoms. The IES is a short set of 15 questions measuring the impact of events and the amount of distress associated with events. It comprises the subscales Intrusion (8 items, mean á=0.86) and Avoidance (7 items, mean á=0.82). The IES is measured at t=0, t=1, t=2, t=3 and t=4 for both groups; 2. The Depression and Anxiety subscales of the Symptom CheckList-90-R (SCL-90-R DEP and ANX) will be used to measure an improvement in symptoms of depression and anxiety. The SCL-90-R DEP and ANX subscales measure symptoms of depression and anxiety during the previous week on a five-point Likert scale. Both subscales showed good convergent and divergent validity, and high internal consistencies. The SCL-90-R is validated for participants of twelve years old and older. The depression subscale comprises 16 items (á=.90), the anxiety subscale comprises 10 items (á=.88). The SCL-90-R DEP and ANX subscales are measured at t=0, t=1, t=2, t=3 and t=4 for both groups. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Routine Outcome Measurement (ROM) will be used to follow participants during a session. On every login, participants will see a pop-up asking them how they would grade their mood at that precise moment on a visual analogue scale using smiley’s. After logging out they will receive a pop-up asking the same question. The scores and differences in scores before and after the session are analyzed to find any direct effects of visiting the website; 2. An adapted version of the “Seks onder je 25e” (Sex-under-25) questionnaire will be used to measure an increase in knowledge on sexual and reproductive health, including relational health and a decrease of sexual risk taking behaviour. This questionnaire is held in the Netherlands every few years amongst children, adolescents and young adults age twelve to twenty-five. In 2011 the questionnaire was filled out online by a representative sample of 10.000 youngsters. It discusses sexual, reproductive and relational health in a broad way handling for example topics as sexual education, ‘the first time’, negative experiences, and contraception. Using this questionnaire will enable us to compare health status of the target group with a population sample. The “Seks onder je 25e” (Sex-under-25) questionnaire is measured at t=0, t=2 and t=4 for both groups; 3. The web evaluation questionnaire (WEQ) will contain questions about content, layout, the perceived effectiveness and usefulness of the website, as well as the question to give the website a motivated overall score from 0 to 10, based on their experiences and taking into account their own wishes and needs. The evaluation questionnaire has as goal to identify issues for further improvement of “Feel the ViBe”, to collect possible facilitators and barriers for implementation and to evaluate if the website meets the expectations of the target group. The WEQ is measured twelve weeks after getting access to Feel the ViBe, being t=2 for the intervention group and t=4 for the contro | — |
Contacts
Public ContactKarin Rosmalen-Nooijens, van
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Outcome results
None listed