Friends, not bystanders: Developing relevant outcome measures for myplan, a smartphone-accessible safety decision aid app to help college students support a friend in an abusive intimate relationship

Bloom, Tina L.

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM

Mount Vernon Square A (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Tina L. Bloom, PhD, MPH, RN, University of Missouri

Authors:
Kathryn Laughon, PhD, RN, University of Virginia
Amber Clough, MSW, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy A. Perrin, PhD, Kaiser Permanente
Ginger Hanson, PhD, Kaiser Permanente
Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Johns Hopkins University

Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Compare/contrast conceptual similarities and differences between bystander interventions and IPV prevention interventions for informal support networks of college women.
Apply a measurement model for IPV prevention interventions for informal support networks.

Description:
Informal support network members such as friends are frequently the first/only source of help utilized by young women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). We developed an innovative smartphone-accessible safety decision aid app for friends of abused college women, but found established measures (e.g., for bystander interventions) did not conceptually fit an IPV intervention for informal support networks. In this presentation, we describe conceptualization, development, and preliminary psychometric data of measures of friends’ IPV-related attitudes, knowledge, decisional conflict and supportive behaviors.