Boulter 1997.
Methods | Cluster‐RCT. 8 fraternities and halls of residence assigned to treatment or wait list control by "random draw" | |
Participants | 55 fraternity members and residents of male residential halls within a large rural university, USA. Males only. Aged 19‐25 years, mean 20.77 years | |
Interventions | Intervention: acquaintance rape prevention programme consisting of discussion and video on acquaintance rape and the law. Delivered by female doctoral student of counselling psychology and sexual educators from campus peer education programme. The intervention was delivered as a single 1‐hour session. 23 students Control: 'wait list control' (i.e. received the intervention after completion of data collection). 32 students |
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Outcomes | Knowledge/acceptance of rape myths, as measured by a modified version of the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale and a modified version of the Acceptance of Sexually Coercive Strategies Scale | |
Follow‐up | 6 and 10 weeks post‐test | |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Low risk | Assignment to groups occurred by "a random drawing" |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | High attrition rates (due to participants not completing all 3 phases of study): intervention 70% (53/76); control 68% (67/99) |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | All outcomes reported in full (number of participants, means, SDs) |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Blinding not possible. Facilitators of intervention programme had extensive experience in presentations on topic of sexuality, but no mention made of how uniformity of delivery was assessed |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Not stated |