TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Are school-level factors associated with primary school students' experience of physical violence from school staff in Uganda?
JO  - International health
A1  - Knight, Louise
A1  - Nakuti, Janet
A1  - Allen, Elizabeth
A1  - Gannett, Katherine R.
A1  - Naker, Dipak
A1  - Devries, Karen M.
SP  - 27
EP  - 35
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1876-3413
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihv069
ID  - ref1
ER  -