scholarly journals The ecological effects of universal and selective violence prevention programs for middle school students: A randomized trial.

2009 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Simon ◽  
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Robin M. Ikeda ◽  
Emilie Phillips Smith ◽  
Le'Roy E. Reese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Ecological Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Violence Prevention Programs

scholarly journals Stepwise Development of BullyDown, a Text Messaging-Based Bullying Prevention Program for Middle School Students (Preprint)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele L Ybarra ◽  
Tonya L Prescott ◽  
Dorothy L Espelage
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
School Students ◽  
Beta Test

BACKGROUND Bullying is a significant public health issue among middle school-aged youth. Current prevention programs have only a moderate impact. Cell phone text messaging technology (mHealth) can potentially overcome existing challenges, particularly those that are structural (e.g., limited time that teachers can devote to non-educational topics). To date, the description of the development of empirically-based mHealth-delivered bullying prevention programs are lacking in the literature. OBJECTIVE To describe the development of BullyDown, a text messaging-based bullying prevention program for middle school students, guided by the Social-Emotional Learning model. METHODS We implemented five activities over a 12-month period: (1) national focus groups (n = 37 youth) to gather acceptability of program components; (2) development of content; (3) a national Content Advisory Team (n = 9 youth) to confirm content tone; and (4) an internal team test of software functionality followed by a beta test (n = 22 youth) to confirm the enrollment protocol and the feasibility and acceptability of the program. RESULTS The focus group recruitment experience suggests that Facebook advertising was less efficient than using a recruitment firm. Sixth grade youth had difficulty engaging in the bulletin board-style focus groups, suggesting that participants may need to be in at least 7th grade to have the writing skills for this research activity. Feedback from the Content Advisory Team suggests a preference for 2-4 brief text messages per day. Beta test findings suggest that BullyDown is both feasible and acceptable: 100% of youth completed the follow-up survey, 86% of whom liked the program. CONCLUSIONS Text messaging appears to be a feasible and acceptable delivery method for bullying prevention programming delivered to middle school students.

A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING TO IMPROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1032-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Gill Strait ◽  
Bradley H. Smith ◽  
Sam McQuillin ◽  
John Terry ◽  
Suzanne Swan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
School Students

A qualitative analysis of factors influencing middle school students' use of skills taught by a violence prevention curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert D. Farrell ◽  
Krista R. Mehari ◽  
Alison M. Kramer-Kuhn ◽  
Sally A. Mays ◽  
Terri N. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Prevention Curriculum
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