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Translating an In-Person Brief, Bystander Bullying Intervention (STAC) to a Technology-Based - Phase II

Award Number: R42MD014943
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2019
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2025

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Translating an In-Person Brief, Bystander Bullying Intervention (STAC) to a Technology-Based - Phase II - While studies support the efficacy of comprehensive, school-wide interventions in reducing bullying, these types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementation, resulting in barriers to providing school-based bullying prevention, especially in low-income and rural communities. Additionally, although training bystanders to act as “defenders” on behalf of targets of bullying is an important intervention component, few programs include this as part of their comprehensive strategy. Brief programs that focus on bystander training and require fewer resources are needed to reduce bullying and its negative consequences. The PI (Dr. Midgett) developed STAC, a brief, stand-alone bullying bystander intervention for middle school students, to reduce bullying and mental health risks for bystanders. Brief, in-person programs, however, still pose implementation barrier such as training school personnel, providing external support, and not allowing for large groups of students to be trained at the same time. For this project, we propose to develop a technology- based STAC intervention (STAC-T) that will allow students to customize their experience by selecting avatars and bullying scenarios based on our previous studies conducted in a range of middle schools, including those in low-income and rural communities. We will also incorporate an assessment and personalized feedback component to promote behavior change. The innovative, user-centered design proposed will be inherently sensitive to cultural needs of students and identify personally-appropriate strategies. The specific aims of this application include building the program leveraging our prior work and expertise of an external advisory board, usability and effectiveness testing with middle school students and stakeholders to evaluate feasibility, and testing the efficacy of the program with a randomized controlled trial. The technology-based platform will increase the overall reach, impact, and sustainability of the STAC intervention for bullying prevention. It will substantially reduce cost to increase reach and its interactivity and algorithms can tailor program content to adapt it further for students attending low-income and rural schools. Thus, this low-cost, easy to disseminate technology-based bullying bystander intervention has the potential to have a substantial impact on the problem of bullying and the negative associated consequences for both students who are targets and bystanders in middle school when the problem of bullying peaks. There is a large market for the STAC-T intervention with approximately 100,000 public and private schools with middle-school grades in the United States. Globally, the online education market is growing at 10% a year and the digital health market exceeds $220 billion annually.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$86,478 )
2025	2024	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC	1667 COLE BLVD STE 220	LAKEWOOD	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	4	6/26/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$86,478
														Subtotal = -$86,478

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $108,370 )
2024	2024	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.	1667 COLE BLVD	LAKEWOOD	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	4	2/29/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$97,533
2024	2024	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.	1667 COLE BLVD	LAKEWOOD	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	4	5/30/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$10,837
2024	2023	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.	1667 COLE BLVD	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	10/10/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $108,370

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $706,564 )
2023	2023	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.	1667 COLE BLVD	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	8/21/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$108,370
2023	2023	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC.	1667 COLE BLVD	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	3/2/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$814,934
														Subtotal = $706,564

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $962,564 )
2022	2022	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC	1667 COLE BLVD STE 225	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	5/26/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$976,837
2022	2022	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC	1667 COLE BLVD STE 225	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	9/16/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$12,000
2022	2022	KLEIN BUENDEL, INC	1667 COLE BLVD STE 225	GOLDEN	CO	80401	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	6/1/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$2,273
														Subtotal = $962,564

Grand Total All Awards = $1,691,020

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Translating an In-Person Brief, Bystander Bullying Intervention (STAC) to a Technology-Based - Phase II

Award Number: R42MD014943

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2019

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2025

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