Dating CAFE Ambassador Programme: Chinese College Students to Help Peers in Dating Violence
| Autor: | Norita Ruby Tang, Anna Wai-Man Choi, Janet Yuen Ha Wong, Daniel Y. T. Fong, Jessie Ho-Yin Yau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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020205 medical informatics Referral Adolescent Universities media_common.quotation_subject education Poison control Intimate Partner Violence Compassion 02 engineering and technology Suicide prevention Peer Group Interpersonal relationship Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Surveys and Questionnaires 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology China Students media_common Medical education 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Focus Groups Domestic violence Hong Kong Female 050104 developmental & child psychology Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Health educationbehavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education. 46(6) |
| ISSN: | 1552-6127 |
| Popis: | Dating violence prevention programs have been understudied in Asia, including China. The current study sought to evaluate the feasibility of the Dating Compassion, Assessment, reFerral, and Education (CAFE) Ambassador Programme in China. This program is designed to enhance the behavioral intentions of Chinese students to help peers who are experiencing dating violence and to compare students’ attitudes toward dating violence, students’ subjective norms about helping peers, and students’ perceived behavioral control in helping peers before and after attending the 7.5 hour program. A quasi-experimental design was used, including two student groups ( n = 85) assessed at baseline and 3-month follow-up. Quantitative pre- and postintervention measurements, in conjunction with qualitative focus group interviews, were used to evaluate the program’s effectiveness. The findings indicated a significant enhancement in the behavioral intentions of participants in the intervention group to help peers experiencing dating violence, a stronger subjective norm regarding helping others, and an enhanced sense of perceived behavioral control to help, compared with the control group, over time. Focus group data revealed that students who participated in the program developed a more comprehensive definition of dating violence, increased awareness of dating violence in peers, a shift in their focus concerning the role of intention in dating violence and felt more responsible for helping their peers. The findings support the effectiveness of the Dating CAFE Ambassador Programme. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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