Gender-Based Violence Prevention Workshops: An Experimental Evaluation of Efficacy

Lauren Donais, Bill Simonsen and Nicole Simonsen

International Journal of Public Administration, 2019, vol. 42, issue 10, 840-854

Abstract: Gender-based violence has become an increasingly visible and salient public problem. In the Fall of 2015, the University of Connecticut’s Violence Against Women Prevention Program (VAWPP) implemented interactive workshops in first-year experience (FYE) classes to reduce rape myth acceptance, improve knowledge and understanding of the University’s affirmative consent policy, and increase confidence in interpreting cues related to sexual consent. This randomized experimental design tested whether these outcomes were realized as a result of the workshops. In almost all instances, the workshops substantially and statistically significantly decreased students’ rape myth acceptance, increased their knowledge and understanding of consent, and improved their confidence in cue interpretation.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1521830

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