This study evaluating the effectiveness of a video bystander program (called TakeCARE) to promote helpful bystander behavior in situations involving relationship violence among high school students, found the intervention efficacious when implemented in an urban high schools by high school counselors.
This study evaluating the effectiveness of a video bystander program designed to promote helpful bystander behavior in situations involving relationship violence among high school students, found the intervention efficacious when implemented in an urban high school by high school counselors. Results indicate that students who viewed TakeCARE reported more helpful bystander behavior at the follow-up assessment than students in the control condition. Students (N = 1295; 52.5% female; 72.3% Hispanic) reported their bystander behavior at a baseline assessment. Classrooms (N = 66) were randomized to view the video bystander program (called TakeCARE) or to a control condition, and high school counselors administered the video in the classrooms assigned to view TakeCARE. Students again reported their bystander behavior at a follow-up assessment approximately 3 months afterward. Results of exploratory analyses of the likelihood of encountering and intervening upon specific situations calling for bystander behavior are also reported. (Published Abstract Provided)