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Draws on the notion of human connectivity to strangers, expounded by the notion of "six degrees of separation," to explore common experiences that bind all women of the world together, focusing on gender-based violence. Personal proximity to the rape of an undergraduate woman on the campus where the author was a professor brought home the realities of violence in women's everyday lives, prompting her to become part of a grassroots movement that established a university rape crisis center. Similar eye-opening experiences regarding the depth of the problem at the global level were gleaned following participation at an international women's studies conference. An in-depth case study of the acquaintance rape of another college student & how it led to the author's becoming an advocate for rape victims is also reported. The necessity of raising public consciousness about the global dimensions & commonalties for all women of the problem of violence against their sex is emphasized. K. Hyatt Stewart

Purpose
Sexual violence prevention programs on college campuses have proliferated in recent years. While research has also increased, a number of questions remain unanswered that could assist campus administrators in making evidence-based decisions about implementation of prevention efforts. To that end, the field of prevention science has highlighted the need to examine the utility of booster sessions for enhancing prevention education. The purpose of this paper is to examine how two methods of prevention delivery – small group educational workshops and a community-wide social marketing campaign (SMC) – worked separately and together to promote attitude change related to sexual violence among college students.


Design/methodology/approach
The two-part study was conducted at two universities. Participants were from successive cohorts of first year students and randomly assigned to participate in a bystander based in-person sexual violence prevention program or a control group. Participants were later exposed to a bystander based sexual violence prevention SMC either before or after a follow-up survey. Analyses investigated if attitudes varied by exposure group (program only, SMC only, both program and SMC, no prevention exposure).


Findings
Results revealed benefits of the SMC as a booster for attitude changes related to being an active bystander to prevent sexual violence. Further, students who first participated in the program showed enhanced attitude effects related to the SMC.


Originality/value
This is the first study to look at the combination of effects of different sexual violence prevention tools on student attitudes. It also showcases a method for how to investigate if prevention tools work separately and together.

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