PFI-TT: Novel mobile platform technology to both prevent and respond to teen dating violence

PFI-TT：新颖的移动平台技术，可预防和应对青少年约会暴力

• 批准号: 1919063
• 负责人: Sharyn Potter
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-15 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919063&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Novel; mobile; platform

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) PFI project is to develop a smartphone app/platform technology to prevent and respond to dating violence incidences, a significant public health problem affecting over 35% of high school students with long-term health, social and economic consequences. Despite the magnitude of this problem, 68% of high school principals reported lacking formal training on how to assist teen dating violence victims. The proposed technology offers an economically viable dating violence prevention strategy for high schools. The existing mobile apps are not designed for high school students to assist themselves (or a friend) who is a victim of teen dating violence and do not have a have a simple mechanism enabling high school administrators to coordinate and customize the prevention and response messaging their students are accessing. If successful, the proposed technology will fill a gap not addressed by currently available solutions, which are not designed to help the students enrolled in the 35,163 US high schools discretely extricate themselves from situations with the potential to become dangerous. The proposed project will consist of three elements that, combined, represent a highly innovative technology solution to a prevalent public health problem. First is the use of existing smartphone capabilities in new ways (e.g., enabling users to appear to receive urgent texts or phone calls, which are, in reality, simulated, to provide a socially sensitive reason for a student to leave a risky situation). Second is the application of extensive evidence-based research to both prevention and response technology features within the app. Third is a simple-to-use dashboard, through which high school administrators can easily customize data in the back-end database, to make it specific to their students and institution, and monitor its use among their students.The specific feature requirements needed for this interactive mobile platform will be informed by institutional review board (IRB)-reviewed interviews, focus groups and online surveys with students, parents/guardians and school administrators. The proposed hybrid smartphone app will run on Apple iOS and Android operating systems, using Google's Firebase SDK for analytics and accessing data from a back-end SQL database. The app platform will include a simple-to-use dashboard interface to the database, enabling schools to easily customize content to adapt to school and state policies and to monitor anonymous statistics about app use within their institution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该创新合作伙伴关系 - 技术翻译 (PFI-TT) PFI 项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是开发智能手机应用程序/平台技术，以预防和应对约会暴力事件，这是一个影响超过 35% 的高人口的重大公共卫生问题。对学生造成长期的健康、社会和经济后果。尽管这个问题很严重，但 68% 的高中校长表示缺乏如何帮助青少年约会暴力受害者的正式培训。拟议的技术为高中提供了一种经济上可行的约会暴力预防策略。现有的移动应用程序并不是为高中生设计的，旨在帮助自己（或朋友）成为青少年约会暴力的受害者，并且没有一个简单的机制使高中管理人员能够协调和定制预防和响应消息传递学生正在访问。如果成功，所提出的技术将填补当前可用解决方案无法解决的空白，这些解决方案的目的并不是帮助美国 35,163 所高中就读的学生谨慎地摆脱可能变得危险的情况。拟议的项目将由三个要素组成，这三个要素结合在一起，代表了针对普遍公共卫生问题的高度创新的技术解决方案。首先是以新的方式使用现有的智能手机功能（例如，使用户能够看似收到紧急短信或电话，这实际上是模拟的，为学生提供离开危险情况的社会敏感原因）。其次是将广泛的基于证据的研究应用于应用程序内的预防和响应技术功能。第三是简单易用的仪表板，高中管理人员可以通过该仪表板轻松定制后端数据库中的数据，使其特定于学生和机构，并监控学生的使用情况。这个交互式移动平台将通过机构审查委员会 (IRB) 审查的访谈、焦点小组以及对学生、家长/监护人和学校管理人员的在线调查来提供信息。拟议的混合智能手机应用程序将在 Apple iOS 和 Android 操作系统上运行，使用 Google 的 Firebase SDK 进行分析并访问后端 SQL 数据库中的数据。该应用程序平台将包括一个易于使用的数据库仪表板界面，使学校能够轻松定制内容以适应学校和州政策，并监控有关其机构内应用程序使用情况的匿名统计数据。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并具有通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。