Initiating change locally in bullying and aggression through the school environment (INCLUSIVE) trial: Update to cluster randomised controlled trial protocol

TY - JOUR

T1 - Initiating change locally in bullying and aggression through the school environment (INCLUSIVE) trial

T2 - Update to cluster randomised controlled trial protocol

AU - Bonell, Chris

AU - Mathiot, Anne

AU - Allen, Elizabeth

AU - Bevilacqua, Leonardo

AU - Christie, Deborah

AU - Elbourne, Diana

AU - Fletcher, Adam

AU - Grieve, Richard

AU - Legood, Rosa

AU - Scott, Stephen

AU - Warren, Emily

AU - Wiggins, Meg

AU - Viner, Russell M.

PY - 2017/5/25

Y1 - 2017/5/25

N2 - Background: Systematic reviews suggest that multi-component interventions are effective in reducing bullying victimisation and perpetration. We are undertaking a phase III randomised trial of the INCLUSIVE multi-component intervention. This trial aims to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the INCLUSIVE intervention in reducing aggression and bullying victimisation in English secondary schools. This paper updates the original trial protocol published in 2014 (Trials 15:381, 2014) and presents the changes in the process evaluation protocol and the secondary outcome data collection. Methods: The methods are summarised as follows. Design: cluster randomised trial. Participants: 40 state secondary schools. Outcomes assessed among the cohort of students at the end of year 7 (n = 6667) at baseline. Intervention: INCLUSIVE is a multi-component school intervention including a social and emotional learning curriculum, changes to school environment (an action group comprising staff and students reviews local data on needs to review rules and policies and determine other local actions) and staff training in restorative practice. The intervention will be delivered by schools supported in the first two years by educational facilitators independent of the research team, with a third intervention year involving no external facilitation but all other elements. Comparator: normal practice. Outcomes: Primary: Two primary outcomes at student level assessed at baseline and at 36 months: 1. Aggressive behaviours in school: Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime school misbehaviour subscale (ESYTC) Discussion: The trial involves independent research and intervention teams and is supervised by a Trial Steering Committee and a Data Monitoring Committee. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN10751359. Registered on 11 March 2014.

AB - Background: Systematic reviews suggest that multi-component interventions are effective in reducing bullying victimisation and perpetration. We are undertaking a phase III randomised trial of the INCLUSIVE multi-component intervention. This trial aims to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the INCLUSIVE intervention in reducing aggression and bullying victimisation in English secondary schools. This paper updates the original trial protocol published in 2014 (Trials 15:381, 2014) and presents the changes in the process evaluation protocol and the secondary outcome data collection. Methods: The methods are summarised as follows. Design: cluster randomised trial. Participants: 40 state secondary schools. Outcomes assessed among the cohort of students at the end of year 7 (n = 6667) at baseline. Intervention: INCLUSIVE is a multi-component school intervention including a social and emotional learning curriculum, changes to school environment (an action group comprising staff and students reviews local data on needs to review rules and policies and determine other local actions) and staff training in restorative practice. The intervention will be delivered by schools supported in the first two years by educational facilitators independent of the research team, with a third intervention year involving no external facilitation but all other elements. Comparator: normal practice. Outcomes: Primary: Two primary outcomes at student level assessed at baseline and at 36 months: 1. Aggressive behaviours in school: Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime school misbehaviour subscale (ESYTC) Discussion: The trial involves independent research and intervention teams and is supervised by a Trial Steering Committee and a Data Monitoring Committee. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN10751359. Registered on 11 March 2014.

KW - Adolescent

KW - Bullying

KW - Cluster randomised trial

KW - School intervention

KW - Violence prevention

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019718846&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1186/s13063-017-1984-6

DO - 10.1186/s13063-017-1984-6

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85019718846

SN - 1745-6215

VL - 18

JO - Trials

JF - Trials

IS - 1

M1 - 238

ER -