Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jan 9;10:1051983. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1051983. eCollection 2022.
Sexual- and gendered harassment are normalised in many peer groups, yet their associations with mental health concerns among adolescents are well-established. School based interventions that prevent and reduce sexual and gendered harassment among younger adolescents are scarce. For schools, protecting pupils from harassment may be challenging if the behaviour is trivialised among the pupils themselves. In the current study, the school intervention "Stop Sexual Harassment" was therefore developed to help teachers and pupils detect, address and stop sexual and gendered harassment among pupils ages 13-15 in Norwegian secondary schools.
In this study the effectiveness of "Stop Sexual Harassment" is evaluated a cluster randomised controlled trial among pupils and teachers at 38 secondary schools. Schools were randomised into intervention and control groups. Primary outcomes are sexual and gendered harassment victimisation and perpetration, which will be assessed by the administration of questionnaires to pupils and teachers at baseline, and 2-, and 7-months follow-up. A process evaluation of the intervention implementation will be conducted through focus group interviews with pupils and teachers to gain insight about their experiences with the program components and implementation of the intervention.
If the intervention yields positive effects, large-scale implementation of the program may be offered for secondary schools. The program may thus reduce sexual and gendered harassment among young adolescents.
clinicaltrial.gov; identifier: NCT04716400.
在许多同龄群体中，性和性别骚扰被视为正常现象，但它们与青少年心理健康问题之间的关联已得到充分证实。针对年龄较小的青少年的基于学校的干预措施，旨在预防和减少性和性别骚扰，然而这类措施却很少。对于学校而言，如果学生自己将这种行为视为无关紧要，那么保护学生免受骚扰可能会具有挑战性。因此，在当前的研究中，开发了学校干预措施“制止性骚扰”，以帮助教师和学生发现、处理和制止挪威中学 13-15 岁学生之间的性和性别骚扰行为。
在这项研究中，通过对 38 所中学的学生和教师进行集群随机对照试验，评估了“制止性骚扰”的有效性。学校被随机分为干预组和对照组。主要结局是性和性别骚扰的受害和施害情况，将通过向学生和教师发放问卷进行评估，在基线、2 个月和 7 个月时进行随访。通过对学生和教师进行焦点小组访谈，对干预措施的实施进行过程评估，以了解他们对项目内容和干预措施实施的经验。
如果干预措施产生积极效果，可能会为中学提供该项目的大规模实施。该项目可能会减少青少年之间的性和性别骚扰。
clinicaltrial.gov；标识符：NCT04716400。
