Pinzone 1998.
Methods | RCT. Participants randomly assigned to intervention or control | |
Participants | 152 undergraduate introductory psychology students (72% aged 18‐20 years, 28% aged > 21 years; 59 males, 93 females) from 2 universities in the Midwest, USA | |
Interventions | Intervention: information of statistics, how to be safe, discussion of cases of rape and rape myth acceptance worksheets delivered by graduate psychology student facilitators. The duration of the intervention is unclear. 76 students Control: received a sexually transmitted disease prevention programme. 75 students |
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Outcomes | Attitudes towards rape as measured by Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, Rape Empathy Scale, Attitudes Toward Women Scale and Acquaintance Rape Scenarios | |
Follow‐up | 1 week post‐test | |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Participants were "randomly assigned" |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Attrition rate: 10% (15/152). Unlikely to have affected results |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | All outcomes reported fully (number of participants, means and SDs) |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Blinding not possible. Facilitators received some training but no mention of any monitoring to ensure adherence to protocol |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Not stated |