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. 2013 Jun 19;2013(6):CD004534. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004534.pub3

Holcomb 2002.

Methods Cluster‐RCT. Classes randomly assigned to intervention or control
Participants 141 freshman athletes (65.9% men, 34.1% women; mean age 18.1 years) enrolled in health education class at a university, USA
Interventions Intervention: mixed gender date rape prevention programme consisting of case scenarios and discussions. Delivered by 2 women health education instructors who had a script, training protocol and the research design protocol to hand. The intervention was delivered as a single 50‐minute session. 56 students
Control: no intervention. 85 students
Outcomes Attitudes towards date rape, as measured by the Date Rape Attitudes Survey
Follow‐up Post‐test "after presentation" (presumably immediately after but unclear)
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Course sections assigned "randomly"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not stated
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Not directly stated but analyses conducted on n = 141 implying no loss to follow‐up
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Number of participants and means reported with summary statistics. No SD/SE reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Blinding not possible. Some effort made to ensure intervention delivery remained the same through training of staff but no mention of how adherence to guidelines was monitored
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not stated