Effectiveness Study of the Intervention "Stop Sexual Harassment" in Secondary School
NCT ID: NCT04716400
Last Updated: 2023-11-27
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
2037 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-04-13
2023-06-30
Brief Summary
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METHOD: A minimum 32 schools with at least 3840 pupils will participate in a cluster randomized controlled trial. Participating schools will be randomly assigned to intervention schools and control schools. At the intervention schools, teachers will be introduced to "Stop sexual harassment" through a digital course which will provide them with a manual containing eight lessons to be held for the pupils. At the control schools there will not be any intervention. The effects of the intervention on pupils will be determined by assessing their experiences with sexual and gendered harassment, and internalized and externalized problems prior to the intervention (T1), shortly after the intervention (T2) and six moths after the intervention (T3). The effects of the intervention on teachers will be determined by assessing the teachers' experiences of responding to sexual and gendered harassment among pupils.
HYPOTHESIS: It is expected that the intervention "Stop sexual harassment" will lead to reduced sexual and gendered harassment perpetration and victimization, and less internalized and externalized problems among the pupils in secondary school, and that teachers will more frequently take action when sexual- and gendered harassment is encountered among the pupils.
Detailed Description
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DESIGN AND METHOD Recruitment: All secondary schools (8th to 10th grade) in three counties (Vestland, Nordland and former county Buskerud) in Norway will be invited to take part in the intervention.
Design: A cluster randomized controlled trial will be used to test the effects of the intervention. Participating schools will be randomly assigned to intervention schools and control schools.
Assessment: Questionnaires will be administered to pupils and teachers, prior to the intervention to obtain a baseline level (T1), shortly after the intervention (T2), and about six months after the intervention (T3). Previously tested instruments to assess to what extent the intervention leads to reduction in sexual harassment and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender expression among the pupils will be utilized. Teachers' responses to the pupils' sexual and gendered harassment will also be assessed.
Data analytic plan and power analysis: The data will be analyzed with both simple descriptive (such as correlations, frequency tables) and advanced statistical methods. With regard to the latter, 3 level multilevel modelling will be used to assess the impact of the intervention on the outcome variables. Multilevel modelling takes into account the hierarchical design of the data due to cluster randomization by school (level 3) and school class (level 2). Cluster effects were approximated (Intra Class Correlation; ICC) influencing the main outcomes (Sexual harassment, emotional problems, attitudes towards homosexuals) by taking advantage of data from previous studies. These studies indicate that whereas relatively little (often less than 5%) of the total variance of sexual harassment victimization, bullying and emotional problems are at the school and/or school class level, a still limited amount of studies suggests that this might not be the case for instance attitudes towards homosexuals where as much as 12,5 - 30% of the total variance have been explained by school/class levels. Power calculations, by the use the Optimal Design Software, showed that with a .05 level of significance, power = .80, ICC level 2 = .25, ICC level 3=0.05, number of cluster level 2=6 (classes) with a cluster size=20 (pupils), 38 schools are needed to be able to detect effect sizes of .30 (about medium effects according to Cohen (1988). The power of the analyses can be increased by including the pre-intervention measure of the outcome variable. Assuming the average school level of the outcome variable at pre-intervention explains 50 or 30 percent of the variation of the outcome variable at post-test, decreases the number of schools to 30 and 32, respectively, given the same assumptions as above. It was therefore decided to include at least 32 schools (16 intervention schools) to guard against the possibility of type II errors. A minimum of 3840 pupils will thus take part in the study.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Intervention group
"Stop sexual harassment"
Stop sexual harassment
Teachers will be introduced to a digital course on the prevention of sexual- and gendered harassment. In the course they will provided with a manual containing eight lessons to be held for the pupils. Each lesson will last 45 minutes and consist of a short lecture and practical activities for the pupils.
Control group
No intervention
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Stop sexual harassment
Teachers will be introduced to a digital course on the prevention of sexual- and gendered harassment. In the course they will provided with a manual containing eight lessons to be held for the pupils. Each lesson will last 45 minutes and consist of a short lecture and practical activities for the pupils.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
12 Years
16 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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University of Bergen
OTHER
Boston College
OTHER
Norwegian Council for Mental Health
OTHER
The Dam Foundation
OTHER
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Hilde Slåtten
Researcher 2
Principal Investigators
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Hilde Slaatten, Ph.D
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS
Locations
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NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Bergen, , Norway
Countries
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References
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Slaatten H, Haugland BSM, Bjorknes R, Fyhn T, Tveito TH, Poteat VP, Breivik K. Stop Sexual Harassment: A study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in secondary schools in Norway. Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 9;10:1051983. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1051983. eCollection 2022.
Other Identifiers
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Funder
Identifier Type: OTHER
Identifier Source: secondary_id
NORCE
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id