Citation

Ahrens CE, Rich MD, Ullman JB. Violence Against Women 2011; 17(6): 760-776.

Affiliation

California State University at Long Beach, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801211410212

PMID

21628338

Abstract

The interACT Sexual Assault Prevention Program is an interactive, skill-building performance based on the pedagogy of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. A longitudinal evaluation of this program compared pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up data from 509 university student participants. Results suggested that the interACT performance was successful in increasing participants' beliefs about the effectiveness of bystander interventions and the self-rated likelihood that participants would engage in bystander interventions in the future. Differences in both overall ratings and rates of change were noted. Implications of these results for research and practice are discussed.

Language: en