Evaluation of the Effect of the BOAT® Structured Prevention Program on Violence in Middle Schools
- Conditions
- Middle SchoolsPreventionStudentsViolence
- Registration Number
- NCT06471413
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital, Montpellier
- Brief Summary
Violence has major consequences for the health and development of children and teenagers, even though it is commonplace, particularly in secondary schools. The team at the Centre Ressources pour les Intervenants auprès d'Auteurs de Violences Sexuelles Languedoc-Roussillon (CRIAVS-LR, CHU Montpellier) has created a BOite A ouTils to prevent sexual and gender-based violence: the BOAT, for professionals working with children and teenagers aged between 5 and 18. Structured around 5 themes and 4 age groups, the BOAT is very easy to use. The 134 intervention sheets have been validated and designed to target a risk factor (to be reduced) or a protective factor (to be developed) so that children do not become perpetrators or victims of violence.
- Detailed Description
The study will involve 60 middle school (10 middle school REP/REP+ in six academies) over four consecutive school years between 2023 and 2027, the first year being devoted to preparing the study with the establishment. The research project is coordinated by the Montpellier University Hospital, and regulatory approvals have been sought from the relevant authorities.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 5400
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Middle school students: students enrolled in a middle school included in the study, enrolled in the fourth or ninth grade and randomly selected to participate in the research. The age of a fourth or ninth grader is between 13 and 17.
- Educational team: professionals and teachers working in a middle school participating in the research (included in the study).
- Schoolchildren: opposition to participation in the search by the child's parents (or one of the 2 parents with parental authority) and/or opposition by the child.
- Educational team: opposition to participation in the search.
- Person unable to speak French
- Person unable to understand the nature, purpose and methodology of the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method changes in the incidence of violent behavior between the three years preceding the middle school's inclusion (period without intervention) and the three years following the start of the study (period with or without intervention, depending on the intervention arm) The incidence of violent behavior for each study period will be calculated by dividing the number of violent incidents observed in the school, by the number of schoolchildren monitored over the period (in person/year) in the same school.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The frequency of disclosures of violence or abuse during interventions every year at the end of the school year during three year in order to guide them towards an appropriate course of care.
School climate will be assessed using an anonymous ICS (Indice of School Climate ) questionnary every year at the end of the school year during three year It will be sent to educational teams and completed via the ENT (digital Workspace)
The number of reports (information of concern or alerts) every year at the end of the school year during three year The number of reports (information of concern or alerts)
Students' well-being, substance use, risky sexual behavior and suicidal behavior every year at the end of the school year during three year This computerized questionnaire will be sent via a link and completed directly and anonymously via the National Education Digital Workspace.
Teachers' perceived stress at work will be assessed using the PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) validated in French every year at the end of the school year during three year It will be sent to teaching teams and completed anonymously via the ENT (Digital Workspace) offered by the French Ministry of Education.