The intersection of school corporal punishment and associated factors: Baseline results from a randomized controlled trial in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Violence against youth is a global issue; one form of youth victimization is school corporal punishment. We use baseline assessments from a cluster randomized controlled trial to examine the prevalence of school corporal punishment, by gender, and the relationship to levels of peer violence at school, parent corporal punishment, youth food security and youth academic performance and school attendance in Pakistan. Forty homogenous public schools in the urban city of Hyderabad, Pakistan were chosen for randomization into the trial evaluating a youth violence prevention intervention. 1752 6th graders, age 11-14 years, were selected as the target population. Since schools are segregated by gender in Pakistan, data are from interviews in 20 boys' schools and 20 girls' schools. Overall, 91.4% of

SUBMITTER: Khuwaja HMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6200248 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature