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Claire A Raible1, Rebecca Dick2, Fern Gilkerson3
1Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC, 3414 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
The Journal of School Health
|June 6, 2017
Summary
School nurses can feasibly deliver an adolescent relationship abuse intervention. This program was acceptable to students and nurses, despite challenges in school buy-in and privacy.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Adolescent Health
- School Nursing
Background:
- Project Connect aims to enhance healthcare responses to partner and sexual violence through public health and domestic violence service partnerships.
- Pennsylvania pioneered a school nurse-delivered intervention for adolescent relationship abuse within school settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the feasibility of implementing a school nurse-led prevention intervention for adolescent relationship abuse.
Main Methods:
- Five Pennsylvania schools participated, with nurses surveyed pre- and post-training.
- Nurses underwent training and a one-year follow-up interview.
- Student feedback was collected via anonymous surveys after nurse visits.
Main Results:
- School nurses successfully integrated healthy relationship discussions into student interactions.
- The intervention was found to be acceptable by both school nurses and students.
- Barriers included securing school-wide support and identifying private spaces for intervention delivery.
Conclusions:
- The school nurse-delivered healthy relationships intervention is feasible and acceptable to students and nurses.
- Strategies were identified by nurses to overcome initial implementation challenges and gain support.
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