Barata Paula C, Samardzic Tanja, Eliasziw Misha, Senn Charlene Y, Radtke H Lorraine, Hobden Karen L, Thurston Wilfreda E
University of Guelph, ON, Canada.
Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2025 May;40(9-10):2234-2256. doi: 10.1177/08862605241270057. Epub 2024 Aug 26.
Despite several parallels between intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA), programs designed to reduce either of these forms of violence against women rarely evaluate the impact on both IPV and SA. Accordingly, we investigated whether one such program (the Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA) Sexual Assault Resistance program), designed to help university-aged women resist SA, could also reduce subsequent IPV. Women university students who were enrolled in the Sexual Assault Resistance Education (SARE) randomized controlled trial examining the impact of the EAAA program on SA, were recruited immediately after completing the last survey in the SARE trial. From this trial, 153 women completed the IPV substudy, which included an additional survey. Occurrence of IPV was assessed using the Composite Abuse Scale. Of the 93 new relationships reported by 66 women in the control group, the 1-year risk of IPV was 26.8%. In contrast, of the 113 new relationships reported by 87 women in the EAAA program group, the 1-year risk of IPV was 12.2%. Effectively, the EAAA program significantly reduced the 1-year risk of IPV by 54.4% ( = .037, 95% CI [2.9%, 79.8%]). Our findings suggest that the EAAA program is effective in reducing the risk of IPV and highlights the generalizability of programming that targets the foundational underpinning of multiple forms of gender-based violence.
尽管亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）和性侵犯（SA）之间存在一些相似之处，但旨在减少这两种针对女性的暴力形式的项目很少评估对IPV和SA的双重影响。因此，我们调查了一个旨在帮助大学年龄段女性抵御SA的项目（强化评估、确认、行动（EAAA）性侵犯抵御项目）是否也能减少后续的IPV。参加了性侵犯抵御教育（SARE）随机对照试验以研究EAAA项目对SA影响的女大学生，在完成SARE试验的最后一次调查后立即被招募。从该试验中，153名女性完成了IPV子研究，其中包括一次额外的调查。使用综合虐待量表评估IPV的发生情况。在对照组66名女性报告的93段新关系中，IPV的1年风险为26.8%。相比之下，在EAAA项目组87名女性报告的113段新关系中，IPV的1年风险为12.2%。实际上，EAAA项目显著降低了54.4%的IPV 1年风险（ = 0.037，95%CI [2.9%，79.8%]）。我们的研究结果表明，EAAA项目在降低IPV风险方面是有效的，并突出了针对多种形式基于性别的暴力的基础支撑进行规划的可推广性。
