Anti-social behaviours in schools and their health implications Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
20 schools will deliver INCLUSIVE and 20 schools will not deliver INCLUSIVE.
The intervention is intended principally to augment rather than to replace existing activities (e.g. train
Sponsors
UCL Institute of Child Health (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Planned inclusion/exclusion criteria (applied only to schools): 1. Secondary schools within the state education system (including community, academy or free schools, and mixed or single sex) in England. 2. Ofsted rating (most recent) of ?requires improvement?/?satisfactory? or better.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Private schools, non-mainstream schools (e.g. for those with learning disabilities) and pupil referral units. 2. Schools with an ?inadequate?/?poor? Ofsted rating
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| These will be measured at 36 months (i.e. after three intervention years) through student survey self-reports. As is conventional in trials of interventions addressing violence and aggression in schools, the trialists will rely on self-reports from students, rather than observations or teacher reports because of respectively the impracticality and greater likelihood of information bias of the latter two. The primary outcomes measures include one measure of bullying victimization and one measure of perpetration of aggressive behaviours: 1. Gatehouse Bullying Scale (GBS). The GBS is a short, reliable tool to measure the occurrence of bullying victimisation in schools. This measure was designed by one of our collaborators (LB) and has been shown to be related to other measures of social attachments, school engagement, and anxiety and depressive symptoms. The scale has 12 items, and asks about being the subject of recent teasing, name calling, rumours, being left out of things and physical threats or actual violence from other students in the last 3 months. Each section asks about the recent experience of that type of bullying (yes or no), how often it occurred, and how upset the student was by each type of bullying. 2. Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime (ESYTC) school misbehaviour subscale. The ESYTC measures several domains of violence and aggression at school. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Current secondary outcomes as of 03/04/2017: The GBS and ESYTC outcomes will be measured at 24 months as secondary outcomes. In addition the following will be measured at 24 and 36 months: 1. Student level self-report outcomes: These will be measured through student survey self-reports: 1.1. Paediatric quality of life inventory (PedsQL) version 4.076 will be used to assess overall quality of life. The 30-item PedsQL has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of quality of life (QoL) in normative adolescent populations. It consists of 30 items representing five functional domains: physical, emotional, social, school and well-being, and yields a total QoL score, two summary scores for ?Physical Health? and ?Psychosocial Health? and three subscale scores for ?Emotional?, ?Social?, and ?School? functioning 1.2. Psychological function and well-being: 1.2.1. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief screening instrument for detecting behavioural, emotional and peer problems and pro-social strengths in children and adolescents. It is brief, quick to complete, and validated in national UK samples 1.2.2. Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) is a seven-item scale designed to capture a broad concept of positive emotional well-being including psychological functioning, cognitive-evaluative dimensions and affective-emotional aspects, with a total ?Well-being Index? generated 1.3. Risk behaviours: 1.3.1. Substance use. Validated age-appropriate questions taken from national surveys and/or previous trials will be used to assess smoking (smoking in previous week; ever smoked regularly), alcohol use (use in previous week; number of times really drunk; binge drinking) and illicit drug use (last month; lifetime use) 1.3.2. Sexual risk behaviours: Age of sexual debut and use of c | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed