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ظاهرة التنمر ضمن طلاب المدارس الاعدادية في بغداد - الكرخ == BULLYING AMONG STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN BAGHDADKARKH

اسم المؤلف: حيدر مجيد يحيى

اسم المشرف: مشتاق طالب هاشم

الموضوع العام: الطب

السنة: 2016

الموضوع الدقيق: طب المجتمع

الدرجة: ماجستير

الجامعة: جامعة بغداد - كلية الطب

اللغة: الانكليزية

مكان الجامعة: بغداد

الصفحات الاولى: 📎 19T1281 - p.pdf

المستخلص: Background : Bullying is a major public health problem especially among students in high schools.Literature showed that bullying have an effect on mental, social, emotional, general behavior and academic function of students in school.Objective : To explore the prevalence of bullying among students in intermediate and secondary schools in Baghdad.Subjects and methods : A multi - stage stratified random sample of (302) students from intermediate and secondary schools in Baghdad - Karkh was included in the study; collection of data was done from October to December 2014. Using Focus Group Discussion each participant was directly interviewed to complete a questionnaire which contains four elements. First element was contained the sociodemographic information, Second element was formulated to measure the bullying depending on “Factors associated with bullying behavior in middle school students” by Bosworth, Espelage and Simon, and “A comparison of the Gatehouse Bullying Scale and the Peer Relations Questionnaire for students in secondary school” by Bond, Wolfe, Tollit, Buttler and Patton, and “Development of the Multi - dimensional Peer Victimization Scale” by Mynard and Joseph. Third element was for measuring the frequency of symptoms of bullying, the statements were translated from a compendium of the National Center on Birth Defects andDevelopment disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fourth element was to assess the posttraumatic stress symptoms by using Harvard Trauma Questionnaire - Iraqi version for trauma symptoms (Part IV).Chi - square was used to examine the association between independent variables (socio - demographic variables and traumatic events) with dependent variables (bully, victim and witness). P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results : The rate of bullies was 24.3%, rate of victims was 38.8%, rate of sexual bullies was 17.1%, and rate of sexual victims was 21.4%. There was no significant statistical association between age and bullying (P=0.3).A significant association was noticed between sex and bullying (P=0.001).Bullying was varied significantly between resident area (P=0.004). A significant association was found between bullies with smoking and failure in school (P=0.001 for each).Conclusion : High prevalence of bullying (bullies, victims, sexual bullies and sexual victims) was found among student. The smoking and substance use was reported among the participants of study.Key words : Bullying, victimization, war, PTSD, Iraq.