Involving youth in planning and implementing actions to reduce intimate partner violence and suicide in Botswana

A pilot dialogic intervention supporting youth to co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana: youth REverse the Culture Of ViolEnce

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN14769639

Enrollment

2600

Registered

2026-06-30

Start date

2026-12-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-07-13

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Conditions

Prevention of intimate partner violence and suicide among youth in Botswana Other

Interventions

The intervention is support for evidence-based dialogue between stakeholders in the study communities. It draws on the Socialising Evidence for Participatory Action (SEPA) protocol developed to suppor

groups of stakeholders discuss local evidence and decide on actions to tackle a common concern. Actions vary from place to place

the protocol for sharing and discussing evidence is standard and can be randomised. The local research team, themselves young women and men, will work with a small group of young women and men recruit

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

10 Years to 29 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: For the household survey of impact of the community intervention: 1. Age 16-29 years 2. Living in one of the study communities 3. Able to complete the administered survey questionnaire 4.Give informed consent For the school survey: 1. Age 10-15 years 2. In top two years of primary school or first year of junior secondary school 3. Able to complete facilitated self-administered questionnaire 4. Give assent to participate and parents do not opt-out their participation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: For the household survey of impact of the community intervention: 1. Outside target age range 2. Not living in one of the study communities 3. Not able to complete the administered survey questionnaire For the school survey: 1. Outside target age range 2. Not present in school on the day of the survey 3. Not able to complete facilitated self-administered questionnaire

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Experience and perpetration of intimate partner violence in the previous 12 months among youth aged 10-15 and 16-29 years measured using validated questions in household and school survey at baseline, after 12 months (after immediate intervention period), and after 24 months (after delayed intervention period);Suicide ideation and behaviour in the previous 12 months among youth aged 10-15 and 16-29 years measured using validated scales in household and school survey at baseline, after 12 months (after immediate intervention period), and after 24 months (after delayed intervention period)	—

Measure

Time frame

Experience and perpetration of intimate partner violence in the previous 12 months among youth aged 10-15 and 16-29 years measured using validated questions in household and school survey at baseline, after 12 months (after immediate intervention period), and after 24 months (after delayed intervention period);Suicide ideation and behaviour in the previous 12 months among youth aged 10-15 and 16-29 years measured using validated scales in household and school survey at baseline, after 12 months (after immediate intervention period), and after 24 months (after delayed intervention period)

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Countries

Botswana

Contacts

Public ContactLeagajang Kgakole

kgakolel@gmail.com+267 72 335 671

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 23, 2026