A cluster randomised trial of a classroom communication resource program to change peer attitudes towards children who stutter among grade 7 students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Classroom-based stuttering intervention addressing negative peer attitudes, perceptions, teasing and bullying of children who stutter (CWS) is required as part of holistic stuttering management because of its occurrence in primary school. This study was conducted in 2017, in 10 primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa within lower (second and third) and higher (fourth and fifth) quintiles.

Objectives

The primary objective of this study was to determine treatment effect at six months after intervention of grade 7 participants (Classroom Communication Resource [CCR] intervention versus no CCR) using global Stuttering Resource Outcomes Measure (SROM) scores in school clusters. The secondary objective was to determine grade 7 participant treatment effect on t

SUBMITTER: Mallick R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6267837 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature