Outcome
Type |
Measure |
Description |
Time frame |
Safety issue |
Primary |
Average Rating on Sexual Assertiveness at Baseline |
The Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire uses a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Higher scores are indicative of more impaired assertiveness. The measure comprises a 14-item Relational Sexual Assertiveness subscale and consists of items such as "I worry that my partner won't like me unless I engage in sexual behavior" and "I am easily persuaded to engage in sexual activity" and a 7-item Confidence and Communication subscale. A sample item is "I lack confidence in sexual situations." A total score was created by taking the average of all 14 items (range = 1-5). |
Baseline |
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Primary |
Change in Sexual Assertiveness From Baseline to 3 Month Followup |
The Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire uses a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Higher scores are indicative of more impaired assertiveness. The measure comprises a 14-item Relational Sexual Assertiveness subscale and consists of items such as "I worry that my partner won't like me unless I engage in sexual behavior" and "I am easily persuaded to engage in sexual activity" and a 7-item Confidence and Communication subscale. A sample item is "I lack confidence in sexual situations." A total score was created by taking the average of all 14 items (range = 1-5). |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Primary |
Change in Sexual Assertiveness From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
The Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire uses a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Higher scores are indicative of more impaired assertiveness. The measure comprises a 14-item Relational Sexual Assertiveness subscale and consists of items such as "I worry that my partner won't like me unless I engage in sexual behavior" and "I am easily persuaded to engage in sexual activity" and a 7-item Confidence and Communication subscale. A sample item is "I lack confidence in sexual situations." A total score was created by taking the average of all 14 items (range = 1-5). |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Primary |
Average Number of Resistance Tactics Endorsed at Baseline |
The Resistance Tactics Questionnaire will be used to measure participants use of six self-defense strategies via "yes" or "no" responses to the question prompt. The self-defense strategies assessed included (a) assertive body language (e.g., walking confidently), (b) assertive verbal responses (e.g., saying "no"), (c) avoiding telegraphing emotions (e.g., providing an assertive verbal response even when nervous), (d) attention to your intuition (e.g., trusting your gut), (e) yelling and running, and (f) physical self-defense. Higher scores indicate greater use of resistance tactics. A total score was created by calculating the sum of all 6 items (range: 0-6). |
Baseline |
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Primary |
Change in Resistance Tactics From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
The Resistance Tactics Questionnaire will be used to measure participants use of six self-defense strategies via "yes" or "no" responses to the question prompt. The self-defense strategies assessed included (a) assertive body language (e.g., walking confidently), (b) assertive verbal responses (e.g., saying "no"), (c) avoiding telegraphing emotions (e.g., providing an assertive verbal response even when nervous), (d) attention to your intuition (e.g., trusting your gut), (e) yelling and running, and (f) physical self-defense. Higher scores indicate greater use of resistance tactics. A total score was created by calculating the sum of all 6 items (range: 0-6). |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Primary |
Change in Resistance Tactics From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
The Resistance Tactics Questionnaire will be used to measure participants use of six self-defense strategies via "yes" or "no" responses to the question prompt. The self-defense strategies assessed included (a) assertive body language (e.g., walking confidently), (b) assertive verbal responses (e.g., saying "no"), (c) avoiding telegraphing emotions (e.g., providing an assertive verbal response even when nervous), (d) attention to your intuition (e.g., trusting your gut), (e) yelling and running, and (f) physical self-defense. Higher scores indicate greater use of resistance tactics. A total score was created by calculating the sum of all 6 items (range: 0-6). |
Change from Baseline and 6 months |
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Primary |
Average Use of Dating Self-Protection Against Rape Strategies at Baseline |
Participant's use of protective strategies against sexual victimization will be assessed with the Dating Self-Protection Against Rape Scale. Participants will report the frequency with which they engage in a series of 15 behaviors used to for self-protection (e.g., "How often do you pay attention to your dating partner's drug/alcohol intake?"). Responses are provided along a 6-point scale ranging from never to always. Higher scores indicate greater use of self-protective strategies. A total score was created by calculating the average of all 15 items (range: 1-6). |
Baseline |
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Primary |
Change in Dating Self-Protection Against Rape From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
Participant's use of protective strategies against sexual victimization will be assessed with this scale. Participants will report the frequency with which they engage in a series of 15 behaviors used to for self-protection (e.g., "How often do you pay attention to your dating partner's drug alcohol intake?"). Responses are provided along a 6-point scale ranging from never to always. Higher scores indicate greater use of self-protective strategies. A total score was created by calculating the average of all 15 items (range: 1-6). |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Primary |
Change in Dating Self-Protection Against Rape From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
Participant's use of protective strategies against sexual victimization will be assessed with the Dating Self-Protection Against Rape Scale. Participants will report the frequency with which they engage in a series of 15 behaviors used to for self-protection (e.g., "How often do you pay attention to your dating partner's drug alcohol intake?"). Responses are provided along a 6-point scale ranging from never to always. Higher scores indicate greater use of self-protective strategies. A total score was created by calculating the average of all 15 items (range: 1-6). |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Average Endorsement of Rape Myth Acceptance at Baseline Scale |
The 45-item scale Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale assesses the endorsement of rape myth attitudes supportive of sexual coercion and aggression. Rape myths include "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to downplay, or justify sexual violence that men commit again women" (Gerger et al., 2007). The scale is formatted on a 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from "1" (strongly disagree) to "7" (strongly agree). A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all 45-items (range: 1-7). |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Rape Myth Acceptance From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
The Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale is a 45-item scale assessing the endorsement of rape myth attitudes supportive of sexual coercion and aggression. Rape myths include "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to downplay, or justify sexual violence that men commit against women" (Gerger et al., 2007). The scale is formatted on a 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from "1" (strongly disagree) to "7" (strongly agree). A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all 45-items (range: 1-7). Higher scores indicate greater endorsement of rape myths. |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Secondary |
Change in Rape Myth Acceptance From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up Scale |
This 45-item Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale assesses the endorsement of rape myth attitudes supportive of sexual coercion and aggression. Rape myths include "beliefs about rape (i.e., about its causes, context, consequences, perpetrators, victims, and their interaction) that serve to downplay, or justify sexual violence that men commit against women" (Gerger et al., 2007). The scale is formatted on a 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from "1" (strongly disagree) to "7" (strongly agree). Higher scores indicate greater endorsement of rape myths. A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all 45-items (range: 1-7). |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Baseline Average Rating of Resistance Self-Efficacy |
Participants' confidence in utilizing assertive responses to potentially threatening dating situations was assessed by seven items on the Resistance Self-Efficacy Scale (i.e., "If someone you were with was attempting to get you to have sex with them and you were not interested, how confident are you that you could successfully resist their advances?"; Marx, Calhoun, Wilson, & Meyerson, 2001; Ozer & Bandura, 1990). Responses are provided along a 7-point scale, ranging from not at all confident to very confident. Higher scores indicate great resistance self-efficacy. A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all items (range: 1-7). |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Resistance Self-Efficacy From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
Participants' confidence in utilizing assertive responses to potentially threatening dating situations was assessed by seven items on the Resistance Self-Efficacy Scale (i.e., "If someone you were with was attempting to get you to have sex with them and you were not interested, how confident are you that you could successfully resist their advances?"; Marx, Calhoun, Wilson, & Meyerson, 2001; Ozer & Bandura, 1990). Responses are provided along a 7-point scale, ranging from not at all confident to very confident. Higher scores indicate great resistance self-efficacy. A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all items (range: 1-7). |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Secondary |
Change in Resistance Self-Efficacy From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
Participants' confidence in utilizing assertive responses to potentially threatening dating situations was assessed by seven items on the Self-Efficacy Scale (i.e., "If someone you were with was attempting to get you to have sex with them and you were not interested, how confident are you that you could successfully resist their advances?"; Marx, Calhoun, Wilson, & Meyerson, 2001; Ozer & Bandura, 1990). Responses are provided along a 7-point scale, ranging from not at all confident to very confident. Higher scores indicate great resistance self-efficacy. A total score was created by calculating the average rating across all items (range: 1-7). |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Average Rape Attribution at Baseline |
Participants attributions of blame following experiences of sexual victimization will be assessed by 25 items on the Rape Attribution Scale (Frazier, 2002; Frazier & Seales, 1997). Responses are provided along a 5-point scale, ranging from never to very often, whereby higher scores indicate higher levels of blame. Five subscales will be utilized to explore various attributions of blame, including (a) societal blame, (b) behavioral selfblame, (c) characterological self-blame, (d) chance, and (e) rapist blame. A total score was to be created by calculating the average rating across all items (range: 1-5). |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Rape Attribution From Baseline to Follow up Assessments |
Participants attributions of blame following experiences of sexual victimization will be assessed by 25 items on the Rape Attribution Scale (Frazier, 2002; Frazier & Seales, 1997). Responses are provided along a 5-point scale, ranging from never to very often, whereby higher scores indicate higher levels of blame. Five subscales will be utilized to explore various attributions of blame, including (a) societal blame, (b) behavioral selfblame, (c) characterological self-blame, (d) chance, and (e) rapist blame. A total score was to be created by calculating the average rating across all items (range: 1-5). |
Change from 3 months at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Average Rating of Gender Identity Non-Affirmation, Internalized Transphobia, Concealment, Community Connectedness, and Pride |
Designed for use with transgender and gender nonconforming people, the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience measure is one of the few that assesses gender identity-related constructs. It was designed to take into account unique gender minority distal stressors as was a resilience factors. These subscales will be used in this current study to test hypothesized mediators of the effects of the ESD violence prevention training on behavioral outcomes. Responses are given on a a 5-point Likert response scale (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree). Higher scores are indicative of greater phenomena. Six subscale scores were created by calculating the average rating for measure items corresponding with each construct: nonaffirmation of transgender identity, internalized transphobia, identity nondisclosure, negative expectations, community connection, and pride. Range for all subscales: 1-5 |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Non-Affirmation, Internalized Transphobia, Concealment, Community Connectedness, and Pride From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
Designed for use with transgender and gender nonconforming people, the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience measure is one of the few that assesses gender identity-related constructs. It was designed to take into account unique gender minority distal stressors as was a resilience factors. These subscales will be used in this current study to test hypothesized mediators of the effects of the ESD violence prevention training on behavioral outcomes. Responses are given on a a 5-point Likert response scale (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree). Higher scores are indicative of greater phenomena. Six subscale scores were created by calculating the average rating for measure items corresponding with each construct: nonaffirmation of transgender identity, internalized transphobia, identity nondisclosure, negative expectations, community connection, and pride. Range for all subscales: 1-5 |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Secondary |
Change in Gender Identity Non-Affirmation, Internalized Transphobia, Concealment, Community Connectedness, and Pride From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
Designed for use with transgender and gender nonconforming people, the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience measure is one of the few that assesses gender identity-related constructs. It was designed to take into account unique gender minority distal stressors as was a resilience factors. These subscales will be used in this current study to test hypothesized mediators of the effects of the ESD violence prevention training on behavioral outcomes. Responses are given on a a 5-point Likert response scale (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree). Higher scores are indicative of greater phenomena. Six subscale scores were created by calculating the average rating for measure items corresponding with each construct: nonaffirmation of transgender identity, internalized transphobia, identity nondisclosure, negative expectations, community connection, and pride. Range for all subscales: 1-5 |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Percentage of Participants Endorsing Rape, Sexual Assault, and No Sexual Victimization at Baseline |
The Sexual Experience Survey Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) is the most widely used measure in sexual assault research. A primary strength of the measure is that it does not require participant to label their experiences as "sexual assault" or "rape." Rather, it utilizes a series of 10 sexually explicit questions that assess t past sexual behavior along a variety of dimensions. Experiences can be classified as "completed rape," "attempted rape," "coercion," "attempted coercion," or "nonconsensual sexual contact." Participants were assigned a score of "0" if they denied the question and a score of "1" if they endorsed the question. Participants with a score of 0 for all items were categorized as having no history of victimization. Participants with a score of 1 for any item assessing sexual coercion or nonconsensual sexual contact were categorized as having experienced sexual assault. Participants with a 1 for any rape item were catagorized as having experienced rape. |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Percentage of Participants Endorsing Rape, Sexual Assault, and No Victimization From Baseline to 3 Month Followup |
The Sexual Experience Survey Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) is the most widely used measure in sexual assault research. A primary strength of the measure is that it does not require participant to label their experiences as "sexual assault" or "rape." Rather, it utilizes a series of 10 sexually explicit questions that assess t past sexual behavior along a variety of dimensions. Experiences can be classified as "completed rape," "attempted rape," "coercion," "attempted coercion," or "nonconsensual sexual contact." Participants were assigned a score of "0" if they denied the question and a score of "1" if they endorsed the question. Participants with a score of 0 for all items were categorized as having no history of victimization. Participants with a score of 1 for any item assessing sexual coercion or nonconsensual sexual contact were categorized as having experienced sexual assault. Participants with a 1 for any rape item were catagorized as having experienced rape. |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Secondary |
Change in Percentage of Participants Endorsing Rape, Sexual Assault, and No Victimization From Baseline to 6 Month Followup |
The Sexual Experience Survey Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) is the most widely used measure in sexual assault research. A primary strength of the measure is that it does not require participant to label their experiences as "sexual assault" or "rape." Rather, it utilizes a series of 10 sexually explicit questions that assess t past sexual behavior along a variety of dimensions. Experiences can be classified as "completed rape," "attempted rape," "coercion," "attempted coercion," or "nonconsensual sexual contact." Participants were assigned a score of "0" if they denied the question and a score of "1" if they endorsed the question. Participants with a score of 0 for all items were categorized as having no history of victimization. Participants with a score of 1 for any item assessing sexual coercion or nonconsensual sexual contact were categorized as having experienced sexual assault. Participants with a 1 for any rape item were catagorized as having experienced rape. |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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Secondary |
Baseline Average Likelihood of Endorsing Gender-Based Victimization |
This subscale of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure will be used to assess the exploratory hypothesis that the ESD violence prevention training will produce reductions in rates of exposure to gender-related violence. At baseline, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to a list of gender-related victimization experiences since the age of 18. At the 3- and 6- month post-intervention followup, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to these experiences "since your last assessment." Sample items include "I have been threatened with physical harm because of my gender identity or expression." "I have been pushed, shoved, hit, or had somethin thrown at me because of my gender identity or expression." Higher scores indicate greater exposure to gender-related violence. A likelihood of victimization score was calculated based on the average response to all measures on this subscale ("yes" vs "no"). Range: 0-1 |
Baseline |
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Secondary |
Change in Endorsement of Gender-Based Victimization From Baseline to 3 Month Follow up |
This subscale of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure will be used to assess the exploratory hypothesis that the ESD violence prevention training will produce reductions in rates of exposure to gender-related violence. At baseline, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to a list of gender-related victimization experiences since the age of 18. At the 3- and 6- month post-intervention followup, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to these experiences "since your last assessment." Sample items include "I have been threatened with physical harm because of my gender identity or expression." "I have been pushed, shoved, hit, or had somethin thrown at me because of my gender identity or expression." Higher scores indicate greater exposure to gender-related violence. A likelihood of victimization score was calculated based on the average response to all measures on this subscale ("yes" vs "no"). Range: 0-1 |
Change from Baseline at 3 months |
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Secondary |
Change in Endorsement of Gender-Based Victimization From Baseline to 6 Month Follow up |
This subscale of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure will be used to assess the exploratory hypothesis that the ESD violence prevention training will produce reductions in rates of exposure to gender-related violence. At baseline, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to a list of gender-related victimization experiences since the age of 18. At the 3- and 6- month post-intervention followup, participants will indicate whether they have been exposed to these experiences "since your last assessment." Sample items include "I have been threatened with physical harm because of my gender identity or expression." "I have been pushed, shoved, hit, or had somethin thrown at me because of my gender identity or expression." Higher scores indicate greater exposure to gender-related violence. A likelihood of victimization score was calculated based on the average response to all measures on this subscale ("yes" vs "no"). Range: 0-1 |
Change from Baseline at 6 months |
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