Are school-level factors associated with primary school students' experience of physical violence from school staff in Uganda?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The nature and structure of the school environment has the potential to shape children's health and well being. Few studies have explored the importance of school-level factors in explaining a child's likelihood of experiencing violence from school staff, particularly in low-resource settings such as Uganda.

Methods

To quantify to what extent a student's risk of violence is determined by school-level factors we fitted multilevel logistic regression models to investigate associations and present between-school variance partition coefficients. School structural factors, academic and supportive environment are explored.

Results

53% of students reported physical violence from staff. Only 6% of variation in students' experience of violence was due to differences

SUBMITTER: Knight L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4716800 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature