BACKGROUND Systematic reviews suggest that interventions that address school organisation are effective in reducing victimisation and bullying. We successfully piloted a school environment intervention modified from international studies to incorporate 'restorative justice' approaches. This trial aims to establish the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the INCLUSIVE intervention in reducin...

©ARC Page | 62 Abstract The main focus of the study was to investigate the challenges of free primary education in public primary schools since its inception in 2003 in Kenya. The study was carried out in 9 public primary schools in Mombasa County, Coast province. The sample consisted of 9 head teachers, 36 teachers, and 18 pupils randomly selected. The study adopted a descriptive survey design...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders in children and adolescents are common and have serious consequences. Schools present a key opportunity to promote mental health and implement prevention measures. Four school coaches in five German schools were enlisted to engage students, teachers and parents in building a sustainably healthy school and classroom climate. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Altogether, 58 focus...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prevalence of bullying behaviours in schoolchildren and the association of bullying with psychological and psychosomatic health. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. SETTING Government and non-government schools in New South Wales, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 3918 schoolchildren attending year 6 (mean age 11.88 years), year 8 (13.96), and year 10 (15.97) classes from 115 s...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of patience and its components (transcendence, tolerance, contentment, persistence, and hesitation) in predicting bullying among primary school children in shiraz, iran. another purpose was to compare patience and bullying between male and female students. method: the participants were 317 elementary school students (169 female...

In Scotland, work has been done over the past six years to transform education towards a fresh approach to what, how and where young people learn. This new approach, known as the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), has already been developing in primary schools and is now ready to be implemented in secondary schools. One of the teaching and learning approaches emphasised under CfE is the use of di...

The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from three secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at five time points from Grade 7 to Grade 9 identified four groups of students: bullies (9.8%), victims (3.0%), bullyvictims (9.4%), and...

BACKGROUND Soil transmitted helminthes (STH) are significant health problems among school-age children. In Kenya's coastal region, the prevalence among pre-school age children (PSAC) ranges from 27.8 to 66.7 %. Whereas some pre-schools are as far as 7 km from the nearest primary schools, the National School-Based Deworming Programme (NSBDP) requires the pre-school teachers to walk with the chil...

Purpose To describe a case of a child with nonorganic visual loss due to school bullying. Observations An eight-year-old boy presented with bilateral painless vision loss for a few days. His best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 20/200 in the right eye and 20/140 in the left eye. Color vision was normal. Fundoscopy, visual fields, electroretinography, electrooculography and visual evoked po...