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Preventing Violence Against Children in Schools Study

NCT03745573 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2120

Last updated 2018-11-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To date, no interventions to prevent violence in refugee camp schools have ever been rigorously evaluated. The primary objective of this project is to test the effectiveness of the Empateach intervention to prevent physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania. Secondary objectives are to assess the impact of the Empateach intervention on student's depressive symptoms, experience of emotional violence and educational test scores. A two arm cluster RCT with parallel assignment will be conducted.

Conditions

  • Violence, Physical
  • Violence
  • Child Abuse
  • Violence Against Children

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empateach

Empateach is a behavioural intervention for teachers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Medical Research, Tanzania

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Innovations for Poverty Action, Tanzania

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • International Rescue Committee

    collaborator OTHER

  • Behavioural Insights Team

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karen M Devries, PhD · London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
9 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-16
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2020-07-31

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