Publications

Publications

Outcomes

Niolon, P.H., Estefan, L.F., DeGue, S. et al. High School Follow-Up of the Dating Matters® RCT: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviors. Prev Sci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-024-01648-z
Niolon, P.H., Vivolo-Kantor, A.M., Tracy, A., Latzman, N.E., Little, T.D., DeGue, S., Lang, K.M., Estefan, L.F., Ghazarian, S. R., McIntosh, W. L., Taylor, B., Johnson, L., Kuoh, H. Burton, T., Fortson, B., Mumford, E. A., Nelson, S., Joseph, H. Valle, L. A. & Tharp, A.T. (2019). An RCT of Dating Matters: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviors. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 57(1) 13-23.
Niolon, P.H. (2020). Introduction to a Special Section on the Effects of the Dating Matters Model on Secondary Outcomes: Results from a Comparative Effectiveness Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Prevention Science. 22, 145-149.
Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Niolon, P. H., Estefan, L. F., Tracy, A. J., Latzman, N., Little, T. D., DeGue, S., Lang, K. M., & Le, V. D. (2019). Middle School Effects of the Dating Matters® Comprehensive Approach on Peer Violence, Bullying, and Cyber-bullying: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Prevention Science. 22, 151-161.
Estefan, L. F., Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Niolon, P. H., Tracy, A. J., Little, T. D., DeGue, S., Le, V. D., Latzman, N., Tharp, A. T., Lang, K. M., & McIntosh, W. L. (2020). Effects of the Dating Matters® Comprehensive Prevention Model on Delinquent Behaviors in Middle School Youth: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Prevention Science. 22, 145-174.
DeGue, S., Niolon, P.H., Estefan, L.F., Tracy, A.J., Le, V.D., Vivolo-Kantor, A.M., Little, T.D., Latzman, N.E., Tharp, A., Lang, K.M., & Taylor, B. (2020). Effects of Dating Matters® on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Outcomes Among Middle School Youth: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Prevention Science. 22, 175-185.

Background and development

Tharp, A.T., Burton, T., Freire, K., Hall, D., Harrier, S., Latzman, N., Luo, F., Niolon, P., Ramirez, M., & Vagi, K. (2011). Dating Matters™: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships. Journal of Women’s Health. 20, 1-5.
Tharp, A. T. (2012). Dating Matters™: The next generation of teen dating violence prevention. Prevention Science, 13(4), 398-401.
Tharp, A. T., Carter, M., Fasula, A. M., Hatfield-Timajchy, K., Jayne, P. E., Latzman, N. E., & Kinsey, J. (2013). Advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health by promoting healthy relationships. Journal of Women’s Health, 22(11), 911-914.

Design and implementation

Niolon, P. H., Taylor, B. G., Latzman, N. E., Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Valle, L. A., & Tharp, A. T. (2016). Lessons learned in evaluating a multisite, comprehensive teen dating violence prevention strategy: Design and challenges of the evaluation of dating matters: Strategies to promote healthy teen relationships. Psychology of Violence, 6(3), 452
DeGue, S., Le, V., & Roby, S. (2020). The Dating Matters® Toolkit: Approaches to increase adoption, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive violence prevention model. Implementation Research and Practice. 1(1) 1-12.
Luo, F., DeGue, S., & Le, V. D. (2020). Estimating From the Payer Perspective the Implementation Cost of Dating Matters®: A Comprehensive Teen Dating Violence Prevention Model. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37 (11-12), NP9144-NP9167.

Understanding teen dating violence and related risk behaviors

Niolon, P. H., Vivolo-Kantor, A., Latzman, N. E., Valle, L. A., Burton, T., Kuoh, H., Taylor, B., & Tharp, A. T. (2015). Prevalence of teen dating violence and co-occurring risk factors among middle school youth in high risk urban communities. Journal of Adolescent Health, 56, S5–S13.
Latzman, N. E., Vivolo-Kantor, A. M., Niolon, P. H., & Ghazarian, S. R. (2015). Predicting adolescent dating violence perpetration: role of exposure to intimate partner violence and parenting practices. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 49(3), 476-482.

Resources

Parents Matter!

Forehand, R., Armistead, L., Long, N., Wyckoff, S.C., Kotchick, B.A., Whitaker, D., . . . Miller, K.S. (2007) Efficacy of a parent-based sexual-risk prevention program for African American preadolescents: a randomized controlled trial. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine,161(12),1123-1129.

Safe Dates

Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Arriaga, X. B., Helms, R. W., Koch, G. G., & Linder, G. F. (1998). An evaluation of Safe Dates, an adolescent dating violence prevention program. American Journal of Public Health, 88(1), 45–50.
Foshee, V. A., Bauman, K. E., Greene, W. F., Koch, G. G., Linder, G. F., & MacDougall, J. E. (2000). The Safe Dates program: 1-year follow-up results. American Journal of Public Health, 90(10), 1619–1622.
Foshee, V.A., Bauman, K.E., Ennett, S.T., Linder, G.F., Benefield, T., & Suchindran, C. (2004). Assessing the long-term effects of the Safe Dates program and a booster in preventing and reducing adolescent dating violence victimization and perpetration. American Journal of Public Health ,94(4), 619-624.

Families for Safe Dates

Foshee, V.A., McNaughton Reyes, H.L., Ennett, S.T., Cance, J.D., Bauman, K.E., Bowling, J.M. (2012). Assessing the effects of Families for Safe Dates, a family-based teen dating abuse prevention program. Journal of Adolescent Health, 51(4), 349-356.
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