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This review aimed to determine the effectiveness of the school-based child sexual abuse intervention programs in the new millennium era (2000\u20132021) in improving the knowledge, skills, and attitude of school children under 18 years old toward child sexual abuse.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A systematic search was conducted through MEDLINE (PubMed), EBSCO, and SCOPUS databases to collect full English articles related to school-based CSA intervention programs published from 2000 to 2021.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 29 studies from randomized control trial and quasi-experimental from several countries was analyzed. Comparisons within group of pre-post intervention for knowledge, skills, and attitude were measured by standardized mean difference (SMD) and 95% CI of \u22121.06 (95% CI: \u22121.29, \u22120.84), \u22120.91 (95% CI: \u22121.2, \u22120.61), and \u22120.51 (95% CI: \u22123.61, 0.58), respectively. 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