Peer Problem, Psychosocial Wellbeing, Resilience
Conditions
Keywords
Resilience among children, Life skills, Peer social behavior
Brief summary
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of PACT intervention in improving resilience, life skills, and psychosocial skills among children and peer supporters. The evaluation will be carried out in the Public Schools of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
Detailed description
Right to Play is a non-governmental organization that offers play-based life skills education in public schools of Pakistan. This project aim to improve psychosocial wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional life skills of students enrolled in secondary schools of Lyari in Karachi South, Sindh, Pakistan through Play and Act Together (PACT) curriculum. The Aga Khan University will evaluate effectiveness of their intervention that will be offered in public schools of Karachi. Data will be collected from grade 6 students(children) and grade 7 or 8 peer supporters at baseline, midline and endline of the study. Moreover, throughout PACT intervention, fidelity monitoring would be ensured randomly for 3 sessions out of 10 through a checklist to evaluate accuracy of PACT intervention delivered. Furthermore, feasibility checklist would be filled by each participant at the end of the study to analyze the satisfaction, feasibility of PACT intervention and important learnings from PACT curriculum. After the intervention, focus group discussion will took place to learn about the experiences of children, peer supporters and adult coaches who received PACT intervention.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPACT Intervention
PACT Intervention is a group based session delivered by Peer supporters and adult coaches on PACT module. There will be 10 sessions, one per week for 90 to 120 minutes each.
Sponsors
Right to Play
Aga Khan University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
The assessment will be carried out parallel in the intervention and the control arm.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
8 Years to 17 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Have not participated in previous Right to Play activities * Voluntarily agree to participate in this program in 2022-23 * More than 30 students in grades 6 enrolled * A safe playing area (either indoors or outdoors) * Only Boy or Only girl school * Sindh Literacy and Education Department direct administration * Children of grade 6 age 12-15 years * Children who give assent to participate * Parents who give consent to participate their children
Exclusion criteria
* Schools who does not give consent to participate * Children who do not give assent * Parents who do not give consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in Resilience | Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention) | Tool: Child and Youth Resilience Measure 28: It is a 28 items scale. Point values are assigned to responses; Not at all=1; A little= 2; Somewhat= 3; Quite a bit= 4; A lot= 5. Sum of all items= Higher scores indicate higher levels of characteristics associated with resilience. Cutoff: Scores below 65 indicate low resilience; between 65 and 81 show moderate resilience; above 81 will be interpreted as high levels of resilience 3 subscales: Individual, relationships with primary care-givers, and contextual factors that facilitate a sense of belonging |
| Change in social and emotional life skills | Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention) | Multidimensional Scale of Life Skills in Late Childhood: This is a 19 items scale use to assess the different life skills among children. Point values are assigned to responses; Never=1; Rarely= 2; Sometimes= 3; Very often= 4; Always= 5. Lower score indicate no skills while higher score indicate good skills. |
| Change in Peer social behaviour | Baseline ( at the time of enrolment), midline (after 5 weeks) and Endline (within two weeks of intervention) | Tool: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Sub scales (Peer Problem Scale, Prosocial Scale) Score: 0-10 for each subscale Cutoff: Minimum score is positive change while maximum score is negative change. |
Countries
Pakistan
Outcome results
None listed