An Internet-Delivered Sexual Assault Resistance Intervention for Undergraduate Women (The IDEA3 Trial): Protocol for a Multisite Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial (Preprint)
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Abstract
BACKGROUND Sexual assault (SA) is a serious problem at universities. It is estimated that 1 in 5 women students will experience SA before they graduate. OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether a synchronous web-based facilitated adaptation of an efficacious intervention (the Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act [EAAA] program) can reduce the 1-year incidence of rape among first- and second-year undergraduate women. Secondary aims will assess the impact of the Internet-Delivered EAAA (IDEA3) on other forms of SA (attempted rape, attempted and completed coercion, and nonconsensual sexual contact). Tertiary aims will evaluate effects of the program on (1) survivor self-blame in the event of an assault, (2) 6 known mediators of the intervention effect to guide revision of IDEA3 if necessary, and (3) 2 exploratory outcomes measuring acceptance of sexualized aggression and sexual empowerment. METHODS In this multisite open-label randomized controlled trial, 1920 diverse women students at 2 Canadian and 4 US universities will be randomly assigned to receive either the 12-hour IDEA3 (intervention arm) or standard of care (control arm: 60-minute, web-based, live-facilitated consent workshop). Outcomes are measured at baseline, 1 week, 6 months, and 12 months post intervention. SA will be assessed using the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Version. Survivor self-blame and outcomes known to be mediators of EAAA’s reductions in SA will also be measured. RESULTS Funding was received in October 2022. Recruitment began on October 2, 2023, and the first participant was randomized on October 23, 2023. As of August 2025, a total of 683 participants have been enrolled and randomized. Data collection will end in May 2027. CONCLUSIONS If efficacious, IDEA3 will be made available to universities in Canada and the United States. To date, 6 provinces in Canada and the Campus SaVE Act in the United States require institutions to provide SA prevention programming. An evidence-based, cost-effective option that can be delivered remotely via the internet has the potential to become the gold standard. The research, therefore, has the potential to impact women’s health and safety internationally. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06058455, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06058455 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT DERR1-10.2196/72087
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.035 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.112 | 0.017 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".