Cadet Healthy Personal Skills Intervention Trial

Sexual Behavior Clinical Trial

— CHiPS  

Official title:

Adapting, Developing, And Testing An Evidence-Based Life Skills Training Approach For Sexual Assault Prevention

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03839797
• Other study ID #: FAC20170050H
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 27, 2017
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: February 2019
• Source: National Health Promotion Associates, Inc.
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new approach to sexual violence prevention by promoting healthy relationships and personal life skills among incoming Air Force cadets at the United States Air Force Academy.

Description:

National Health Promotion Associates (NHPA) adapted the Botvin Life Skills Training (LST) program for incoming fourth class cadets at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The resulting adaptation, called Cadet Healthy Personal Skills (CHiPS), provides cadets with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to enhance their personal resilience, increase their potential for success, help them develop healthy and rewarding personal relationships, and reduce sexual harassment and assault. The CHiPS program includes ten units, spread across three blocks of content, and each block teaches cadets a range of life skills. All incoming fourth class cadets (N=1,203) were invited to participate in this study, beginning in the Summer of 2017, and of those, 1,098 cadets (91.3%) consented to participate in the trial.Twenty-five facilitators were trained to implement the newly adapted CHiPS program. Half of the incoming class [four Basic Cadet Training (BCT) squadrons] was assigned to receive the intervention, while the other half (four BCT squadrons) continued to receive standard trainings already in place at USAFA. All cadets completed a self-report survey at pretest, posttest, and at a 12-month follow-up

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1050
• Est. completion date: August 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: August 5, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• incoming cadet at USAFA

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sexual Behavior
• Skills, Coping
• Skills, Social

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Cadet Healthy Personal Skills
7.5 hour skills training group intervention
• Standard Health Education
Standard Health Education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	National Health Promotion Associates	White Plains	New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Health Promotion Associates, Inc.	United States Air Force

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Self-reported sexual acts without consent	Three survey items assessed whether the participant was kissed or sexually touched without active consent, penetration or oral sex without active consent, or had sexual intercourse without consent and too intoxicated to resist.	Past 1 year