Abstract
This paper describes the design, implementación and evaluation of the program “Building a healthy relationship,” for higher education students. The program aims to prevent dating violence through the development of knowledge, attitudes and skills that enable them to build a relationship based on equality and mutual respect. The program consists of 5 modules and 14 weekly sessions, and was implemented as an elective course for students of the Universidad de La Frontera (Chile). The evaluation results indicate that the design is appropriate to the users’ profile, the implementation assessment shows adequacy of contents and teaching methodology. The evaluation of students learning outcome revealed a significant increase in knowledge about dating violence, communication and nonviolent conflicto resolutions strategies and moderate increase rejection of violence, which remained 6 months after the end of the program.
