Does the Good Schools Toolkit Reduce Physical, Sexual and Emotional Violence, and Injuries, in Girls and Boys equally? A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial

• DOI: 10.1007/s11121-017-0775-3
• Publication Date: 2017-04-10T02:32:16Z
• Authors: Karen M. Devries; Louise Knight; Elizabeth Allen; Jenny Parkes; Nambusi Kyegombe; Dipak Naker
• Keywords: Health psychology; Sexual Violence

We aimed to investigate whether the Good School Toolkit reduced emotional violence, severe physical sexual violence and injuries from school staff students, as well emotional, between peers, in Ugandan primary schools. performed a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial with parallel assignment. Forty-two schools one district were allocated intervention (n = 21) or wait-list control arms 2012. did cross-sectional baseline endline surveys 2012 2014, was implemented for 18 months surveys. Analyses by intention treat are adjusted clustering within school-level proportions of outcomes. The associated an overall reduction any form and/or peers past week towards both male (aOR 0.34, 95%CI 0.22–0.53) female students 0.55, 0.36–0.84). Injuries result also lower 0.36, 0.20–0.65) 0.51, 0.29–0.90). Although seems be effective at reducing sexes, there is some suggestion that may have stronger effects boys than girls. promising reduce wide range different forms schools, should urgently considered scale-up. Further research needed how could engage more successfully