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 |
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Outcomes | Attitudes towards date rape, as measured by the Date Rape Attitudes Survey | |
Follow‐up | Post‐test "after presentation" (presumably immediately after but unclear) | |
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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 |