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Publication Date: 2021-Jun
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Effectiveness of School-Based Programs to Reduce Bullying Perpetration and Victimization: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Gaffney, Hannah; Ttofi, Maria M.; Farrington, David P.
Campbell Systematic Reviews, v17 n2 e1143 Jun 2021
The objective of this review is to establish whether or not existing school-based antibullying programs are effective in reducing school-bullying behaviors. This report also updates a previous meta-analysis conducted by Farrington and Ttofi. This earlier review found that antibullying programs are effective in reducing bullying perpetration and victimization and a primary objective of the current report is to update the earlier analysis of 53 evaluations by conducting new searches for evaluations conducted and published since 2009. Systematic searches were conducted using Boolean combinations of the following keywords: "bully"*; "victim"*; "bully-victim"; "school"; "intervention"; "prevention"; "program*"; "evaluation"; "effect*"; and "anti-bullying." Searches were conducted on several online databases including, Web of Science, PscyhINFO, EMBASE, EMBASE, DARE, ERIC, Google Scholar, and Scopus. Databases of unpublished reports, such as masters' and doctoral theses (e.g., Proquest) were also searched. Of the 19,877 search results, 474 were retained for further screening. The majority of these were excluded, and after multiple waves of screening, 100 evaluations were included in the meta-analysis. A total of 103 independent effect sizes were estimated and each effect size was corrected for the impact of including clusters in evaluation designs. It is concluded that overall, school-based antibullying programs are effective in reducing bullying perpetration and bullying victimization, although effect sizes are modest. The impact of evaluation methodology on effect size appears to be weak and does not adequately explain the significant heterogeneity between primary studies.
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Victims, Intervention, Student Behavior, Program Evaluation, Effect Size
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