Clinical trial NCT06471413: Evaluation of the Effect of the BOAT® Structured Prevention Program on Violence in Middle Schools
Official title: Evaluation of the Effect of the BOAT® Structured Prevention Program on Violence in Middle Schools
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Students
Middle Schools
Prevention
Violence
Keywords: prevention
violence
middle schools
sexual violence
abuse
sexism
BOAT
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-06-24
Enrollment: 5400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Population of students attending disadvantaged or very disadvantaged middle schools. 60 middle schools will take part in the study, representing a total of 5,400 pupils (one class of ninth graders selected at random per year and per school).

Brief summary: Violence has major consequences for the health and development of children and teenagers, even though it is commonplace, particularly in secondary schools. The team at the Centre Ressources pour les Intervenants auprès d'Auteurs de Violences Sexuelles Languedoc-Roussillon (CRIAVS-LR, CHU Montpellier) has created a BOite A ouTils to prevent sexual and gender-based violence: the BOAT, for professionals working with children and teenagers aged between 5 and 18. Structured around 5 themes and 4 age groups, the BOAT is very easy to use. The 134 intervention sheets have been validated and designed to target a risk factor (to be reduced) or a protective factor (to be developed) so that children do not become perpetrators or victims of violence.

Detailed description: The study will involve 60 middle school (10 middle school REP/REP+ in six academies) over four consecutive school years between 2023 and 2027, the first year being devoted to preparing the study with the establishment. The research project is coordinated by the Montpellier University Hospital, and regulatory approvals have been sought from the relevant authorities.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Middle school students: students enrolled in a middle school included in the study, enrolled in the fourth or ninth grade and randomly selected to participate in the research. The age of a fourth or ninth grader is between 13 and 17.

  * Educational team: professionals and teachers working in a middle school participating in the research (included in the study).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Schoolchildren: opposition to participation in the search by the child's parents (or one of the 2 parents with parental authority) and/or opposition by the child.
* Educational team: opposition to participation in the search.
* Person unable to speak French
* Person unable to understand the nature, purpose and methodology of the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: changes in the incidence of violent behavior
timeFrame: between the three years preceding the middle school's inclusion (period without intervention) and the three years following the start of the study (period with or without intervention, depending on the intervention arm)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Students' well-being, substance use, risky sexual behavior and suicidal behavior
timeFrame: every year at the end of the school year during three year
measure: Teachers' perceived stress at work will be assessed using the PSS (Perceived Stress Scale) validated in French
timeFrame: every year at the end of the school year during three year
measure: School climate will be assessed using an anonymous ICS (Indice of School Climate ) questionnary
timeFrame: every year at the end of the school year during three year
measure: The frequency of disclosures of violence or abuse during interventions
timeFrame: every year at the end of the school year during three year
measure: The number of reports (information of concern or alerts)
timeFrame: every year at the end of the school year during three year
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