Objectives/Goals: Analyze risk factors among college students and their likelihood of experiencing or perpetrating sexual violence. Critique the process to develop a screening tool to match students to existing programming. Examine principles of implementation science in overcoming barriers to connect each student to the most appropriate prevention programming. Methods/Study Population: Research questions: What needs to be in a screening tool to gauge each incoming college student’s risk factors and likelihood for future sexual violence victimization and perpetration? How can the tool be designed using principles of implementation science with end-user feasibility in mind? For this protocol, I will initiate a participatory research process to guide the development of a screening tool for incoming college students in a mid-western sample of the USA to assess risk factors for sexual violence victimization and perpetration. I will assemble a Technical Expert Panel to develop the screening tool using existing standardized measures. I aim to recruit a diverse panel of researchers and practitioners in sexual violence prevention, including sexual assault survivors and peer educators. Results/Anticipated Results: The anticipated result will be a screening tool to predict the likelihood of victimization and perpetration for each incoming college student over one academic year. Next steps would be to pilot-test the screening tool to determine its effectiveness. The long-term goal would be to match each student to the most appropriate evidence-based prevention program based on individualized screening results. This could include existing evidence-based programs that prevent or decrease severity of victimization, revictimization, alcohol-facilitated victimization, perpetration, perpetration among high-risk students, and perpetration among fraternity members. Considering barriers and stakeholder engagement from the onset of the project aims to increase the feasibility of implementation in practice. Discussion/Significance of Impact: Quantifying an approximation of how many students would benefit from which types of programming can help colleges determine where to invest their time and resources to best prevent sexual violence. Guiding each incoming student to the most appropriate evidence-based prevention program could decrease rates of campus sexual violence.
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