Reducing violence by teachers using the preventive intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): A cluster randomized controlled trial at secondary schools in Tanzania.

dc.creatorNkuba, Mabula
dc.date2019-04-03T12:29:30Z
dc.date2019-04-03T12:29:30Z
dc.date2018
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-07T09:39:39Z
dc.date.available2021-05-07T09:39:39Z
dc.descriptionAbstract The high global prevalence of school violence underlines the need for prevention. However, there are few scientifically evaluated intervention approaches that aim at preventing violence by teachers. We evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T). In a cluster randomized controlled trial we assessed attitudes towards and use of violence by teachers (self-reported and reported by students) at eight schools in four regions in Tanzania. Two regions were randomly assigned as intervention regions. Data were assessed in the months before and three months after intervention. In total, 158 teachers (58% females; age: 32.08 years, SD = 5.65) and 486 students (54% females; age: 15.61 years, SD = 0.89) participated in this study. The feasibility was very good: Participants’ acceptance was high and they reported a good integration of the core elements in their working routine. The significantly stronger decrease in the use of emotional and physical violence reported both by teachers and students as well as the stronger decrease in positive attitudes of teachers towards physical and emotional violence in the intervention schools at follow-up provide initial evidence of the efficacy. However, further evidence for the sustainability of its effect is needed.
dc.descriptionScholar Fund of the University of Konstanz and vivo Iinternational.
dc.identifierNkuba, M., Hermenau, K., Goessmann, K. & Hecker, T. (2018). Reducing violence by teachers using the preventive intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): A cluster randomized controlled trial at secondary schools in Tanzania. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0201362. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201362 [IF: 2.766]
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5141
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5141
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPLOS ONE
dc.relation10.1371/journal.pone.0201362;
dc.subjectschool; teacher; physical violence; emotional violence; intervention, Sub-Saharan Africa
dc.titleReducing violence by teachers using the preventive intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): A cluster randomized controlled trial at secondary schools in Tanzania.
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

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