Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2020
A Large-Scale Replication of the Effectiveness of the KiVa Antibullying Program: a Randomized Controlled Trial in the Netherlands.
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- What Is Needed to Create a Prosocial Classroom? The Effectiveness of the Dutch Meaningful Roles Program in Children: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Study.Journal of adolescence · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness of the KiVa Antibullying Program with and without the Online Game in Chile: a Three-Arm Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Trial
- Understanding and Addressing Bullying in Children and Adolescents.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Review
- Causes of bullying among young people and protective mechanisms and preventative factors that promote mental health and well-being: young people's perspectives.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Promoting Positive Leadership: Examining the Long-Term Dynamics of Anti-Bullying Programs.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- KiVa anti-bullying program: preventing bullying and reducing Bulling Behavior among students - a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Students' School and Psychological Adjustment in Classrooms with Positive and Negative Leaders.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Understanding the situation of bystanders to inform anti-bullying interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying.Virtual reality · 2023Article
- Global trends and regional differences in the burden of anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder attributed to bullying victimisation in 204 countries and territories, 1999-2019: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
- Facilitators and Barriers to the Sustainability of a School-Based Bullying Prevention Program.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Peer relations and friendships in early childhood: The association with peer victimization.Aggressive behavior · 2022Article
- Examining the Effectiveness of the WITS Programs in the Context of Variability in Trajectories of Child Development.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- The UK stand together trial: protocol for a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of KiVa to reduce bullying in primary schools.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Peer Victimisation in Early Childhood; Observations of Participant Roles and Sex Differences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Observational
- Navigating the Healthy Context Paradox: Identifying Classroom Characteristics that Improve the Psychological Adjustment of Bullying Victims.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the KiVa antibullying program in the Netherlands through a randomized controlled trial of students in grades 3-4 (Dutch grades 5-6). The sample involved 98 schools who volunteered to participate in the research, with 245 classes and 4383 students at the baseline (49% girls; M age = 8.7 years), who participated in five measurement waves, collected in three consecutive school years. After the baseline, two-thirds of the schools were assigned to the intervention condition (KiVa or KiVa+, the latter included an additional intervention component of network feedback to teachers) and one-third to the control condition (waiting list, care as usual) with a stratified randomization procedure. The effects of the intervention on self-reported victimization and bullying were tested using cross-classified ordered multinomial models and binomial logistic regression models. These longitudinal models showed that self-reported victimization and bullying reduced more strongly in KiVa-schools compared with control schools, with stronger effects after two school years than after one school year of implementation. The results showed that for students in control schools, the odds of being a victim were 1.29-1.63 higher, and the odds of being a bully were 1.19-1.66 higher than for KiVa students. No significant differences between KiVa and KiVa+ emerged. Overall, the findings provide evidence of the effectiveness of the KiVa program in the Netherlands.
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