Does the green dot active bystanding intervention increase actual bystanding behaviors?

Coker, Ann

Friday, March 30, 2012: 1:25 PM-2:45 PM

Pacific H (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)

Speaker:
Ann Coker, PhD, MPH, University of Kentucky

Authors:
Patricia G. Cook-Craig, PhD, University of Kentucky
Corrine M. Williams, ScD, University of Kentucky
Bonnie S. Fisher, PhD, University of Cincinnati
Emily R. Clear, MPH, CHES, University of Kentucky
Lisandra S. Garcia, MPH, University of Kentucky

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Discuss implications for the effectiveness of current and future college bystanding intervention programs.
Describe the impact of the intervention on actual bystanding behaviors

Description:
Determine the effectiveness of an active bystander intervention in changing social norms supporting dating or sexual violence and increasing actual bystanding behaviors toward reducing dating and sexual violence. Using a cross-sectional survey of a random sample of 7945 college undergraduates conducted in the spring of 2010, we report on the association between having received Green Dot active bystander behavior training and the frequency of actual and observed self-reported active bystander behaviors as well as violence acceptance norms.