Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2017
Does the Good Schools Toolkit Reduce Physical, Sexual and Emotional Violence, and Injuries, in Girls and Boys equally? A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.
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- A systematic review and equity analysis of school-based violence prevention interventions evaluated in randomised controlled trials.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions for adolescent school boys and young men to reduce gender-based violence in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the Activities and Target Audiences of School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: Systematic Review and Intervention Component Analysis.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- Primary-level and community worker interventions for the prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of well-being in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Assessment of Psychosocial Programs to Prevent Sexual Violence During Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of sexual and reproductive health interventions for young people in humanitarian and lower-and-middle-income country settings.BMC public health · 2020Pooled it
- Are school-based violence prevention interventions inclusive and effective for children with disabilities? A systematic review of global evidence.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Development of a comprehensive school anti-bullying logic model in Abu Dhabi: a multi-method participatory approach.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- "In Weapons We Trust?" Four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males.PloS one · 2025Article
- Violence outcomes in later adolescence with the Good School Toolkit-Primary: a nonrandomized controlled trial in Uganda.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Good School Toolkit-Secondary Schools to prevent violence against students: protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Adapting a complex violence prevention intervention: a case study of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Are school-based interventions to prevent dating and relationship violence and gender-based violence equally effective for all students? Systematic review and equity analysis of moderation analyses in randomised trials.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Review
- Early Educational Interventions to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- School-based interventions for preventing dating and relationship violence and gender-based violence: A systematic review and synthesis of theories of change.Review of education (British Educational Research Association) · 2022Review
- A summative content analysis of how programmes to improve the right to sexual and reproductive health address power.BMJ global health · 2022Article
- Past-Year Violence Victimization is Associated with Viral Load Failure Among HIV-Positive Adolescents and Young Adults.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Interventions that address institutional child maltreatment: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2021Article
- Long-Term Outcomes of the Good School Toolkit Primary School Violence Prevention Intervention Among Adolescents: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Quasi-Experimental Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
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Abstract
We aimed to investigate whether the Good School Toolkit reduced emotional violence, severe physical violence, sexual violence and injuries from school staff to students, as well as emotional, physical and sexual violence between peers, in Ugandan primary schools. We performed a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial with parallel assignment. Forty-two schools in one district were allocated to intervention (n = 21) or wait-list control (n = 21) arms in 2012. We did cross-sectional baseline and endline surveys in 2012 and 2014, and the Good School Toolkit intervention was implemented for 18 months between surveys. Analyses were by intention to treat and are adjusted for clustering within schools and for baseline school-level proportions of outcomes. The Toolkit was associated with an overall reduction in any form of violence from staff and/or peers in the past week towards both male (aOR = 0.34, 95%CI 0.22-0.53) and female students (aOR = 0.55, 95%CI 0.36-0.84). Injuries as a result of violence from school staff were also lower in male (aOR = 0.36, 95%CI 0.20-0.65) and female students (aOR = 0.51, 95%CI 0.29-0.90). Although the Toolkit seems to be effective at reducing violence in both sexes, there is some suggestion that the Toolkit may have stronger effects in boys than girls. The Toolkit is a promising intervention to reduce a wide range of different forms of violence from school staff and between peers in schools, and should be urgently considered for scale-up. Further research is needed to investigate how the intervention could engage more successfully with girls.
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