biostudies-literatureCluver LEconomic and Social Research CouncilLeverhulme TrustSouth African National Arts CouncilThe John Fell FundUNICEF Innocenti Office of ResearchEuropean Research CouncilUNICEF South AfricaEastern Cape Department of Social Development328https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4950110biostudies-literatureUnknown17(1)<h4>Background</h4>An estimated one billion children experience child abuse each year, with the highest rates in low- and middle-income countries. The Sinovuyo Teen programme is part of Parenting for Lifelong Health, a WHO/UNICEF initiative to develop and test violence-prevention programmes for implementation in low-resource contexts. The objectives of this parenting support programme are to prevent the abuse of adolescents, improve parenting and reduce adolescent behavioural problems. This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Sinovuyo Teen compared to an attention-control group of a water hygiene programme.<h4>Methods/design</h4>This is a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial, with stratified randomisation of 37 settlements (rural and peri-urban) with 40 study clusters in tTrialsA parenting programme to prevent abuse of adolescents in South Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.PMC4950110PLP-2014-09516469021368978313421Gardner FWittesaele CBlanc DCluver LMpimpilashe PLoening HRedfern ARomero RHLechowicz MCatanho RNocuza MMeinck FShenderovich YWard CLDoubt JDe Stone SSteinert JSalah NLachman JLombard CfalseA parenting programme to prevent abuse of adolescents in South Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.<h4>Background</h4>An estimated one billion children experience child abuse each year, with the highest rates in low- and middle-income countries. The Sinovuyo Teen programme is part of Parenting for Lifelong Health, a WHO/UNICEF initiative to develop and test violence-prevention programmes for implementation in low-resource contexts. The objectives of this parenting support programme are to prevent the abuse of adolescents, improve parenting and reduce adolescent behavioural problems. This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Sinovuyo Teen compared to an attention-control group of a water hygiene programme.<h4>Methods/design</h4>This is a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial, with stratified randomisation of 37 settlements (rural and peri-urban) with 40 study clusters in t2016-01-01T00:00:00Z2016 Jul2026-07-15T16:34:23.902Z2026-07-07T03:08:31.213ZS-EPMC49501102743517110.1186/s13063-016-1452-8