The Good School Toolkit for reducing physical violence from school staff to primary school students: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Uganda
Karen Devries,Louise Knight,Jennifer C. Child,BA Angel Mirembe,MA Janet Nakuti,Rebecca Jones,Joanna Sturgess,Elizabeth Allen,Nambusi Kyegombe,Jenny Parkes,Eddy J. Walakira,Diana Elbourne,Charlotte Watts,Dipak Naker +13 more
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The Good School Toolkit is an effective intervention to reduce violence against children from school staff in Ugandan primary schools and is referred to child protective services because of what they disclosed in the follow-up survey.About:
This article is published in The Lancet Global Health.The article was published on 2015-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child abuse & Physical abuse.read more
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The mental health of civilians displaced by armed conflict: an ecological model of refugee distress.
TL;DR: An ecological model of refugee distress is proposed, drawing on research demonstrating that mental health among refugees and asylum seekers stems not only from prior war exposure, but also from a host of ongoing stressors in their social ecology, or displacement-related stressors.
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Bridging the gaps: a global review of intersections of violence against women and violence against children
TL;DR: Evidence of common correlates suggests that consolidating efforts to address shared risk factors may help prevent both forms of violence and a need for more integrated early intervention on VAC and VAW.
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Adolescent suicidal behaviours in 32 low- and middle-income countries.
TL;DR: The prevalence of adolescent suicidal behaviours varies across countries, yet a consistent set of risk factors of suicidal behaviours emerged across all regions and most countries.
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The prevalence and correlates of suicidal behaviours (ideation, plan and attempt) among adolescents in senior high schools in Ghana.
Kwaku Oppong Asante,Nuworza Kugbey,Joseph Osafo,Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie,Jacob Owusu Sarfo +4 more
TL;DR: In the final analysis, anxiety increases the odds of suicidal behaviour, even after controlling for other variables, and parental understanding of adolescents’ problems and worries remained a significant protective factor for all the indices of suicide behaviour after adjusting for other factors.
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Reducing child abuse amongst adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A pre-post trial in South Africa
Lucie Cluver,Lucie Cluver,Franziska Meinck,Alexa R. Yakubovich,Jenny Doubt,Alice Redfern,Catherine L. Ward,Nasteha Salah,Sachin De Stone,Tshiamo Petersen,Phelisa Mpimpilashe,Rocio Herrero Romero,Lulu Ncobo,Jamie M. Lachman,Sibongile Tsoanyane,Yulia Shenderovich,Heidi Loening,Jasmina Byrne,Lorraine Sherr,Lauren M. Kaplan,Frances Gardner +20 more
TL;DR: The programme showed no signs of harm and initial evidence of reductions in child abuse and improved caregiver and adolescent outcomes, and showed high acceptability and unexpected community-level diffusion.
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The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Rosana E. Norman,Munkhtsetseg Byambaa,Rumna De,Alexander Butchart,James Scott,James Scott,James Scott,Theo Vos +7 more
TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis is conducted to assess the relationship between child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, and subsequent mental and physical health outcomes.
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A Global Perspective on Child Sexual Abuse: Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Around the World:
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TL;DR: The results of the meta-analysis confirm that CSA is a global problem of considerable extent, but also show that methodological issues drastically influence the self-reported prevalence of CSA.
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TL;DR: In this article, an unselected sample of 543 children was followed over 20 years to test the independent effects of parenting, exposure to domestic violence between parents, maltreatment, adolescent disruptive behavior disorders, and emerging adult substance abuse disorders (SUDs) on the risk of violence to and from an adult partner.