3261.0: Monday, October 22, 2001 - 8:30 PM

Abstract #25378

Understanding and Preventing Dating Violence

Stacey Plichta, ScD, College of health sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Paige Smith, PhD, Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26169, Greensboro, NC 27402, Wendy Verhoek-Oftedahl, PhD, Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, Amy Silverman, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Joan Kub, PhD, RN, CS, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, 525 N. Wolfe St, Room 452, Baltimore, MD 21205, 410-955-7763, jkub@son.jhmi.edu.

This 5-session panel on dating violence presents three sessions focusing primarily on the prevalence and risk factors related to dating violence victimization and perpetration and two sessions on planning and evaluating interventions. Throughout this session we will highlight the variety of factors related to dating violence victimization and perpetration as gleaned from a variety of methodologies (qualitative focus group; national survey; longitudinal survey of college students). From an intervention perspective we highlight findings from an intervention with middle school students that included interventions with the "general population" of students, high risk students, and with teachers.

Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the factors related to dating violence victimization and perpetration 2. Identify factors related to successful intervention

Keywords: Adolescent Health, Sexual Assault

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA