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

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
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
Notes
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