The Effect of Dynamic School Yards on Violence Control among Elementary School Boys: A Clinical Trial in Southern Iran.
Keywords:
Dynamic Yard, Physical Violence, Verbal Violence, Emotional Violence, Violence, school, Students.Abstract
Background: Nowadays, violence is an important issue between students in schools that has many destructive effects on students wellbeing. One way that suggests to overcome violence in children is dynamic yard. Thus, this study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of dynamic school yards on the control of violence among male students in elementary schools in Kerman city in 2021.
Methods: This was a semi-experimental interventional study and the data collection tool was a student demographic information questionnaire and a violence scale questionnaire. 360 students from four schools that had suitable courtyards were selected by stratified random sampling in two stages. Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U, Fisher and Chi-square tests were used by SPSS version 26 software.
Results: The differences of physical, verbal and emotional violence in the intervention and control groups were not significant before the intervention and the two groups were similar (P > 0.05), and after the intervention the difference was not significant (P >0.05) either; but mean score of physical, verbal and emotional violence was less in both groups.
Conclusion: The findings showed dynamic yard does not effective on violence control. Also, violence control is related to multiple casual factors and change in the school environment is not sufficient to control the students’ violence and more studies to investigate this issue are needed.