Educational and skills-based interventions to prevent relationship violence in young people

Forfatter(e)

Fellmeth, G. Heffernan, C. Nurse, J. Habibula, S. Sethi, D.

År

2015

DOI

10.1002/14651858.CD004534.pub3

Tidsskrift

Research on Social Work Practice

Sider

90-102

Kategori(er)

Atferdsproblemer, antisosial atferd og atferdsforstyrrelser

Tiltakstype(r)

Abstract

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of educational and skills-based interventions to prevent relationship and dating violence in adolescents and young adults.

Methods: We searched Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and other databases for randomized, cluster-randomized, and quasi-randomized studies of interventions to prevent relationship or dating violence. We conducted meta-analyses for episodes of relationship violence, behaviors, and attitudes.

Results: We included 38 studies (15,903 participants) in this review, of which we included 33 studies in the meta-analyses. The risk ratio for episodes of relationship violence was 0.77 (95% confidence interval [CI]: [0.53, 1.13]). The standardized mean difference (SMD) for attitudes toward relationship violence was 0.06 (95% CI: [-0.01, 0.15]). The SMD for behavior related to relationship violence was -0.07 (95% CI: [-0.31, 0.16]). Subgroup analyses showed no statistically significant differences by setting or type of participants.

Conclusions: We found no evidence of effectiveness of interventions on episodes violence, attitudes or behaviors.