Sexual assault resistance education for university women: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (SARE trial)

BMC Women's Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Senn, Charlene Y ^a   Eliasziw, Misha ^b,c   Barata, Paula C ^d   Thurston, Wilfreda E ^c   Newby Clark, Ian R ^d   Radtke, H Lorraine ^e   Hobden, Karen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Intervention; Rape; Resistance; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL ASSAULT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SEXUALITY; UNIVERSITY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN RELATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RAPE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RAPE; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878242181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6874-13-25     Document Type: Article

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