Prevalence of bullying in secondary schools in Port Harcourt
| Autor: | Joyce Okagua, Peace Ibo Opara, BA Alex-Hart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Nigeria Poison control Physical bullying Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Nonprobability sampling Young Adult Age Distribution Injury prevention Prevalence Humans Medicine Sex Distribution Child Students Crime Victims Schools business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Bullying Stratified sampling Cross-Sectional Studies Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Port harcourt business Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 27:391-396 |
| ISSN: | 2191-0278 0334-0139 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/ijamh-2014-0038 |
| Popis: | Background: School bullying is a global problem involving a high proportion of students worldwide. However, its prevalence and types in secondary schools in Port Harcourt is not yet known. Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and types of bullying in secondary schools in Port Harcourt. Subjects: A total of 1160 students from six secondary schools in Port Harcourt comprised the sample. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional school-based study conducted in Port Harcourt in March 2014. Two mixed schools, two all-boys schools, and two all-girls schools were selected using purposive sampling technique. Stratified random sampling technique, by class strata (senior secondary 1, 2 and 3) was used to select 1160 students from the six schools. A 22-item self-administered questionnaire adapted from a previous study was modified and used in this study. The questions covered the prevalence, type of bullying, and socio-demographic data. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 (IBM SPSS Incorporated, Chicago, IL, USA). Results: About 82.2% reported being victims of bullying, whereas 64.9% reported being bullies. About 9.7% and 11.8% were neither bullies nor bullied, respectively. Bullying was significantly higher in the all-boys (90.8%) and all-girls (82.9%) schools than in the mixed schools (73.5%), p=0.000. More males were victims (53.4%) and bullies (53.3%) but more females (55.4%) were bully-victims. The most common (57.5%) type of bullying was physical bullying. Conclusion: The rate of bullying was found to be very high in secondary schools in Port Harcourt. |
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