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

Lanier 1998.

Methods RCT. Participants randomly allocated to treatment and control in "approximately equal numbers"
Participants 615 initially invited. 436 first‐year students participated (98.3% aged 17‐19 years; no information on sex distribution) at an elite, private university, USA
Interventions Intervention: students watched a play with 6 scenes following script entitled "Scruples" depicting date rape. The intervention was delivered as a single 1‐hour session. 218 students (estimated)
Control: students watched a play addressing multi‐cultural issues. 218 students (estimated)
Outcomes Attitudes towards date rape as measured by College Date Rape Attitude Survey
Follow‐up Immediate post‐test
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Participants "randomly assigned"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not stated
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Unclear; no information provided
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Outcome reported, though only mean score (no SD) and summary statistics reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Blinding not possible. Unclear who delivered intervention or what training and monitoring they received
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not stated