The Effectiveness Of School-Based Life Skills Training On Knowledge, Attitude And Assertive Behavior For Prevention Of Sexual Abuse Among Secondary School Adolescents In Pemba: A Quasiexperim

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ABSTRACT

Background: It is estimated that almost 6% of female and 9% of males have experienced abuse in Zanzibar before 18th year of their birthday. Child sexual abuse and health risk issues among adolescents are alarming and have been reported in a wider extents. This study aims to determine the effect of life skills based training on (LSBT) improving knowledge, attitude and assertive behavior for the prevention of sexual abuse among secondary school adolescents of Pemba Island in ZanzibarTanzania.

Method: A quantitative approach coupled with quasi-experimental pre-post design with control was utilized, a total of 174 treatment and 322 control were selected. Multistage (six) sampling design was used to select proportion of representatives from each school. Stratisfied sampling was applied in both treatment and control as well as random sampling by a lottery method. Data were collected using structured questionnares whereby frequency and percentage were used in descriptive statistics, chi-squre, paired t-tes were used to compare groups, difference in difference was used to determine the effect of intervention on the outcome variable and linear regression was used to dertmine the influence of training in controlling other factors. 

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