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NCT Number: NCT05088694

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

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

Age range

11 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

UNC Greensboro

Greensboro, North Carolina, 27401, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Peaceful Coexistence

Behavioral

The Peaceful Coexistence intervention seeks to target important risk and protective factors related to tolerance and acceptance.

The Anti-Extremism intervention seeks to take the same risk and protective factors covered in the Peaceful Coexistence intervention and have students' psychosocial factors shift their skills and behavior.

Other names: Anti-Extremism

Primary outcomes

  1. Norms about intolerance

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Participant's mean rating of norms related to intolerance of others measured by the intolerance norms scale.

  2. Dignity

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of dignity reported by participants measured by the Jacelon Attributed Dignity Scale.

  3. Plurality

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of religious plurality reported by participants using the Religious Plurality scale.

  4. Beliefs about consequences

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participant beliefs about consequences related to not listening to different opinions of others measured by the Beliefs about intolerance consequences scale.

  5. Source literacy

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' reported source literacy measured by the Source literacy scale.

  6. Resistance skills

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' reported efficacy to resist religiously, politically, or socially extreme sentiments measured by the Resistance skills scale.

  7. Decision making

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' report of decision making skills measured by the Decision making skills scale.

  8. Empathy

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' empathy toward people and opinions that are different from their own measured by the Emotional Quotient Scale.

  9. Tolerance of different opinions and behaviors of others

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating pf participants' reporting of expectations of others based on tolerant behaviors measured by the Tolerance of others scale.

  10. Open Mindedness to differing opinions

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean ratings of participants' report of open mindedness of differing political, social, and religious ideals measured by the Open Minded Cognition Scale.

  11. Non-Violent Conflict Resolution

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' ideals related to non-violent conflict resolution measured by the Normative Beliefs about Aggression Scale.

  12. Community values

    Time frame: immediately post intervention

    Mean rating of participants' opinions related to their expectations of other as it pertains to extremist behaviors measured by the community values scale.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2025
Study completion
2025
First posted
Oct 22, 2021
Registry last updated
Dec 18, 2024

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