ArticleBMJ global health2018
Economic evaluation of the Good School Toolkit: an intervention for reducing violence in primary schools in Uganda.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic Review of Per Person Violence Costs.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Violence Prevention Economic Evaluations, 2000-2019.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of a violence prevention intervention in schools and surrounding communities: Secondary analysis of a cluster randomised-controlled trial in Uganda.Child abuse & neglect · 2018Trial
- Implementation of the Good School Toolkit in Uganda: a quantitative process evaluation of a successful violence prevention program.BMC public health · 2018Trial
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- Assessing the cost-effectiveness of economic strengthening and parenting support for preventing violence against adolescents in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa: An economic modelling study using non-randomised data.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- School-based group interpersonal therapy for adolescents with depression in rural Nepal: a mixed methods study exploring feasibility, acceptability, and cost.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2022Article
- Economic Evaluation of Public Health Interventions: An Application to Interventions for the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls Implemented by the "What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls?" Global Program.Journal of interpersonal violence · 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
- Improving lives by accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals for adolescents living with HIV: a prospective cohort study.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2019Article
- Cost and cost-effectiveness of a parenting programme to prevent violence against adolescents in South Africa.BMJ global health · 2019Article
- How did the Good School Toolkit reduce the risk of past week physical violence from teachers to students? Qualitative findings on pathways of change in schools in Luwero, Uganda.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionThis paper presents the cost and cost-effectiveness of the Good School Toolkit (GST), a programme aimed at reducing physical violence perpetrated by school staff to students in Uganda.
methodsThe effectiveness of the Toolkit was tested with a cluster randomised controlled trial in 42 primary schools in Luwero District, Uganda. A full economic costing evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis were conducted alongside the trial. Both financial and economic costs were collected retrospectively from the provider's perspective to estimate total and unit costs.
resultsThe total cost of setting up and running the Toolkit over the 18-month trial period is estimated at US$397 233, excluding process monitor (M&E) activities. The cost to run the intervention is US$7429 per school annually, or US$15 per primary school pupil annually, in the trial intervention schools. It is estimated that the intervention has averted 1620 cases of past-week physical violence during the 18-month implementation period. The total cost per case of violence averted is US$244, and the annual implementation cost is US$96 per case averted during the trial.
conclusionsThe GST is a cost-effective intervention for reducing violence against pupils in primary schools in Uganda. It compares favourably against other violence reduction interventions in the region.
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