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The problem
Intervention: Strengthening social support through extended family relationships, caregiver acceptance and warmth, and school-based peer and teacher support
Who it was tested with: Adolescents orphaned by AIDS living in southwestern Uganda.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Using multivariate regression modeling – controlling for several individual-level and school-level characteristics, we find that social support (perceived emotional and information support received from parents, classmates and teachers), caregiver's acceptance and warmth, and family cohesion have positive effects on children's school grades and attendance." This demonstrates an experimental design with a comparison group and statistical controls, examining multiple dimensions of social support on educational outcomes.
The document does not specify effect sizes, number of participants, or whether benefits varied by subgroup. Long-term sustainability of outcomes is not discussed.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
