Interaction Competencies with Children (ICC): An Approach for Preventing Violence, Abuse, and Neglect in Institutional Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hecker, Tobias; Mkinga, Getrude; Ssenyonga, Joseph; Hermenau, Katharin

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“…In Tanzania, HIV/AIDS and other parental illnesses, poverty, and abandonment have led to an increasing number of orphans ( Hecker et al, 2017 ). For example, an estimated 1,300,000 children are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS ( Makuu, 2019 ).…”

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“…To comprehensively improve the quality of caregiving provided in institutional settings, approaches emphasizing the improvement of care and the prevention of maltreatment are required ( Hermenau et al, 2017 ). To address this, the preventative approach ‘ Interaction Competencies with Children – for Caregivers (ICC-C) ’ was developed ( Hecker et al, 2017 ). ICC-C aims to improve the necessary skills to interact with children in institutional care settings and addresses high needs in orphanages facing limited resources.…”

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Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in East Africa

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Mkinga

Kirika

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Preventive Medicine Reports

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Highlights Interaction Competencies with Children prevents maltreatment in institutional care. Feasibility of intervention despite low resources and heterogeneity of institutions. Participation in intervention significantly reduced maltreatment of orphans. Positive attitudes towards violence declined through intervention participation. Participation in intervention significantly increased childcare knowledge.

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Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in East Africa

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Mkinga

Kirika

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“…Guardians may perceive these impaired children as particularly difficult and may, in response, apply more violent and harsh strategies to manage these children (Garcia & Alampay, 2012; Miragoli, Balzarotti, Camisasca, & Di Blasio, 2018). The guardians’ more violent strategies may result from guardians’ lack of knowledge of nonviolent disciplinary measures (Hecker et al, 2017). It can be further assumed that the finding of high prevalence rates of guardian violence may not only result from the fact that verbal and corporal punishment perpetrated by guardians is lawful in Sri Lanka (GIEACPC, 2018), but also from a common Sri Lankan view that physical violence by parents and teachers is an accepted form of disciplinary measure (de Silva, 1981).…”

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“…Studies on child maltreatment by guardians in residential home show high prevalence, with rates up to 89% (Gavrilovici & Groza, 2007; Hermenau et al, 2014; Saboula, Hussien, & El-Refaee, 2015). In this context, it is noteworthy that residential care institutions in third-world countries are often unregistered and unregulated, often leading to a lack of proper training of the guardians providing childcare (Hecker, Mkinga, Ssenyonga, & Hermenau, 2017). In addition, their environment within children's institutions may be chaotic due to a high fluctuation of staff members as well as an inconsistent assignment of guardians to specific children (Muhamedrahimov, Palmov, Nikiforova, Groark, & McCall, 2004; Wright, Lamsal, Ksetree, Sharma, & Jaffe, 2014).…”

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Explaining the accumulation of victimization in vulnerable children: Interpersonal violence among children traumatized by war and disaster in a children's home in Sri Lanka

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Research in postconflict settings indicated that children's exposure to war and natural disaster is a significant predictor of experiencing violence within their families. However, it is unclear if this effect is driven by characteristics of traumatized children or their parents. To disentangle these different factors we conducted a survey in a children's home in Sri Lanka. A total of 146 institutionalized children (aged 8 to 17) were interviewed using standardized questionnaires administered by local senior counselors in order to assess children's exposure to mass trauma, family violence, and violence in the institution as well as their mental health. Linear regression analyses revealed that, controlling for potential confounds, previous exposure to civil war was a significant predictor of violence by guardians in the children's home. In addition, previous exposure to family violence was a significant predictor of violence by peers in the institutions. A mediation analysis showed that children's internalizing and externalizing behavior problems partly mediated the relationship between violence prior to the admission to the children's home and violence in the children's home. The findings of our study provide evidence for the assumption that the transmission of mass trauma into interpersonal violence can occur independently from parents through children's psychopathology.

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“…The preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children (ICC) aims to foster better adult-child interactions while reducing the occurrence of violent discipline. There are currently two versions of ICC, one for caregivers (ICC-C) and one for teachers (ICC-T) [ 30 – 33 ]. ICC-T aims to contribute to the reduction of violence so that students do not experience emotional and physical violence at school in the long term [ 34 ].…”

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Reducing violence against children by implementing the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Southwestern Uganda

Ssenyonga

Hermenau

Nkuba

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BackgroundAn adolescent's school is often the second most important place for his development and education after the home. However, reports highlight the recurrence of the use of violent discipline in schools. There are few school-based interventions that aim at reducing violence at school that have been implemented and evaluated in sub-Saharan Africa. To reduce violent disciplinary measures used at school, we aim to implement and evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T).Methods/designThe study will be conducted in six randomly selected districts of the Ankole region in southwestern Uganda. We shall randomly select two mixed-day secondary schools from each district that fulfill our inclusion criteria. Schools will be randomly assigned to the intervention condition, where ICC-T will be implemented, and control schools (no intervention). Sixty students between the ages of 12 and 17 years and at least 15 teachers per school will be included in the trial. We aim to collect pre-assessment data directly before the intervention (t1) and 3 months after the intervention (t2) in both intervention and control schools.Using self-administered questionnaires, we will measure students’ exposure to violence using the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS), their psychological well-being using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and teachers’ positive attitudes towards violent disciplining and teachers’ use of violent disciplinary methods (CTS). The implementation feasibility of ICC-T in the cultural context of southwestern Uganda will be assessed with purpose-built measures that follow the guidelines for feasibility studies assessing the demand, applicability, acceptability, and integration of core elements in the daily work.DiscussionThe proposed study will allow us to test the feasibility and efficacy of a preventative intervention seeking to reduce violent disciplinary measures in school settings using a scientifically rigorous design. The proposed study provides the opportunity to contribute to the attainment of goal number 16.2 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda 2015–2030, which aspires to end all forms of violence against children.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03051854. Registered on 14 February 2017.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13063-018-2827-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Interaction Competencies with Children (ICC): An Approach for Preventing Violence, Abuse, and Neglect in Institutional Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in East Africa

Preventing maltreatment in institutional care: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in East Africa

Explaining the accumulation of victimization in vulnerable children: Interpersonal violence among children traumatized by war and disaster in a children's home in Sri Lanka

Reducing violence against children by implementing the preventative intervention Interaction Competencies with Children for Teachers (ICC-T): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Southwestern Uganda

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