Project Description

The goal of this project is to prevent sexual assault perpetration, primary victimization, and revictimization among men and women in the United States Air Force. To achieve this goal, RTI is evaluating empirically-based interventions, conducting formative research, developing screening measures to identify persons who experienced sexual abuse or assault prior to service entry, developing empirically-based tablet interventions to be delivered during initial basic military training (BMT), designing evaluation to assess the impact at each stage of intervention. The interventions are as follows: revictimization prevention among males, revictimization prevention among women, primary victimization prevention among men, primary victimization prevention among women, and perpetration prevention and accompanying classroom content to prevent sexual assault victimization and perpetration. Additionally, RTI is conducting a survey with the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) cadets to inform potential applicability of this BMT intervention to young officers. If successful, these interventions will prevent initial and repeat incidents of sexual assault to ensure safety, well-being, military readiness, strong morale, workplace productivity, and retention among Airmen.

Project Partners
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Open
Open
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