The Optimization and Evaluation of the Extremism and Intolerance Curriculum for the Kingdom of Bahrain.

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Open Mindedness; Decision Making Skills; Resistance Skills; Literacy; Empathy; Active Citizenship; Anti-extremism; Beliefs About Consequences; Tolerance; Norm, Social

Treatments: Behavioral: Peaceful Coexistence

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05088694

IRB-FY21-66

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researcher from UNC Greensboro have partnered with Prevention Strategies and key stakeholders from the Kingdom of Bahrain to conduct a study using the innovative, engineering-inspired methodological approach, the Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST), to optimize and evaluate the Peaceful Coexistence and Anti-Extremism middle and high school curricula. No other curriculum targeting tolerance and/or extremism has been optimized using the state-of-the-art MOST methodology. The overall goal of the project is that the optimized versions of Peaceful Coexistence and Anti-Extremism curricula will be used across the Kingdom of Bahrain and translated for use in other countries to combat the spread of extremism and intolerance. Additionally, the D.A.R.E. keepin' it REAL (kiR) and D.A.R.E. myPlaybook high school programs will be evaluated as part of the Peaceful Coexistence and Anti-Extremism evaluation.

Enrollment: 1,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Public or private Bahraini middle or high school students.
• In addition to the main evaluation questions, the following groups will also be included to make programmatic improvements.
• Parents of above mentioned middle or high school students.
• D.A.R.E. Officers teaching middle school and high school D.A.R.E. in Bahrain.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,500 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Classrooms assigned to the intervention group will receive the Peaceful Coexistence (middle school) or Anti-extremism (high school) curricula.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Peaceful Coexistence

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Classrooms assigned to the No intervention group will receive general information during their sessions.