@article{ref1,
title="Are school-level factors associated with primary school students' experience of physical violence from school staff in Uganda?",
journal="International health",
year="2015",
author="Knight, Louise and Nakuti, Janet and Allen, Elizabeth and Gannett, Katherine R. and Naker, Dipak and Devries, Karen M.",
volume="8",
number="1",
pages="27-35",
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>RESULTS: 53% of students reported physical violence from staff. Only 6% of variation in students' experience of violence was due to differences between schools and half the variation was explained by the school-level factors modelled. Schools with a higher proportion of girls are associated with increased odds of physical violence from staff. Students in schools with a high level of student perceptions of school connectedness have a 36% reduced odds of experiencing physical violence from staff, but no other school-level factor was significantly associated. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that physical violence by school staff is widespread across different types of schools in this setting, but interventions that improve students' school connectedness should be considered.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1876-3413",
doi="10.1093/inthealth/ihv069",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihv069"
}