Preventing violence against adolescents in schools: understanding implementation of the Empateach intervention in Nyarugusu refugee camp

预防学校中针对青少年的暴力行为：了解 Empateach 干预措施在 Nyarugusu 难民营的实施情况

• 批准号: MR/S023860/1
• 负责人: Karen Devries
• 金额: $ 55.09万
• 依托单位: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FS023860%2F1
• 关键词: Preventing; violence; against; adolescents; schools

School is one of the most common settings where children and adolescents may experience violence; and emerging evidence suggests that in some settings, school staff may be one of the most common perpetrators. This may be even more common in emergency settings where people have been displaced, as histories of trauma may contribute to increased likelihood of violence. This study aims to understand whether a school based intervention can reduce violence against children in schools in Nyarugusu, a refugee camp in Tanzania, which provides refuge for populations fleeing conflict from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi. The Empateach intervention leverages behavioural science techniques to change teachers' beliefs and behaviours towards corporal punishment. With funding from MRC, we will conduct a mixed-methods process evaluation to explore how the Empateach intervention reduces violence against adolescents in schools; which factors make it easier and more difficult to implement the intervention is practice; and whether the intervention is cost-effective. This research will run parallel to a randomised controlled trial aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the intervention in reducing levels of violence against students. We will speak to both individuals and groups of students, teachers, parents, headteachers, discipline teachers and other key stakeholders to understand their conceptualisations of 'violence' and 'discipline' among students, parents, teachers and administration and delve into the experience of teachers, students and school administration with the intervention to understand what participants felt 'worked' and 'didn't work' and to gain insight into the mechanisms of action (or lack of action) of the intervention.We will also conduct quantitative analyses of survey data to explore whether the intervention works better in schools with certain characteristics, what was and was not implemented according to plan, to what extent individual teachers and schools participated in the planned activities, and which individual teachers participated in the intervention and which completed a high proportion of activities. We will also use a number of intermediate indicators in the intervention theory of change to understand pathways of change in individual teachers' and students outcomes. The study will also include an economic evaluation to estimate the costs and cost-effectiveness of the Empateach intervention.

学校是儿童和青少年可能遭受暴力的最常见环境之一;新出现的证据表明，在某些环境中，学校工作人员可能是最常见的肇事者之一。在人们流离失所的紧急情况下，这种情况可能更为常见，因为创伤史可能会增加发生暴力的可能性。本研究旨在了解基于学校的干预措施是否可以减少坦桑尼亚难民营Nyarugusu学校中针对儿童的暴力行为，该难民营为逃离刚果民主共和国和布隆迪冲突的人口提供避难所。Empateach干预措施利用行为科学技术改变教师对体罚的看法和行为。在MRC的资助下，我们将进行混合方法过程评估，以探讨Empateach干预如何减少学校中对青少年的暴力行为;哪些因素使实施干预更容易和更困难;以及干预是否具有成本效益。这项研究将与一项随机对照试验平行进行，旨在评估干预措施在减少对学生的暴力行为方面的有效性。我们将与学生，教师，家长，校长，纪律教师和其他主要利益相关者的个人和团体交谈，以了解他们对学生，家长，教师和管理人员之间的“暴力”和“纪律”的概念，并深入研究教师的经验，学生和学校管理人员进行干预，以了解参与者认为什么“有效”和“无效”，并深入了解机制我们亦会对调查数据进行量化分析，以探讨在具某些特色的学校，有关的介入措施是否更有效、哪些活动已按计划进行，哪些活动未按计划进行、个别教师和学校参与计划活动的程度，以及哪些教师参与了有关的介入措施，以及哪些教师完成了高比例的活动。我们还将使用一些中间指标的干预理论的变化，以了解个别教师和学生的结果变化的途径。该研究还将包括一项经济评估，以估计Empateach干预措施的成本和成本效益。

项目成果

Conceptualisation of violence and discipline among students, teachers, and parents in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

• DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106555
• 发表时间: 2024-01-24
• 期刊: CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Barongo，Vivien;Kiwale，Zenais;Devries，Karen
• 通讯作者: Devries，Karen

School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children.

• DOI: 10.1186/s13031-022-00475-9
• 发表时间: 2022-07-23
• 期刊: CONFLICT AND HEALTH
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Fabbri, Camilla;Powell-Jackson, Timothy;Leurent, Baptiste;Rodrigues, Katherine;Shayo, Elizabeth;Barongo, Vivien;Devries, Karen M.
• 通讯作者: Devries, Karen M.

Qualitative process evaluation of the EmpaTeach intervention to reduce teacher violence in schools in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.

• DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069993
• 发表时间: 2023-09-21
• 期刊: BMJ open
• 影响因子: 2.9

The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp: A cluster-randomised controlled trial.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003808
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: PLoS medicine
• 影响因子: 15.8
• 作者: Fabbri C;Rodrigues K;Leurent B;Allen E;Qiu M;Zuakulu M;Nombo D;Kaemingk M;De Filippo A;Torrats-Espinosa G;Shayo E;Barongo V;Greco G;Tol W;Devries KM
• 通讯作者: Devries KM