Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting
The objective is to assess the prevalence and association of Dismissive-Attitude-towards-Violence(DAV) among second-year undergraduates in a lower-resource-setting. A descriptive-cross-sectional-study was carried out among 1290, second-year undergraduates in Sri Lanka using multi-stage-stratified cl...
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| description | The objective is to assess the prevalence and association of Dismissive-Attitude-towards-Violence(DAV) among second-year undergraduates in a lower-resource-setting. A descriptive-cross-sectional-study was carried out among 1290, second-year undergraduates in Sri Lanka using multi-stage-stratified cluster-sampling. Four universities were randomly selected from ten. Undergraduates from foreign-countries, those following external-degrees, distance-learning, clergymen, undergraduates of medical and allied-health were excluded. The cluster size was 30 and 43 clusters were allocated proportionately to the total second-year undergraduate population in each university and faculty. In each faculty, clusters were proportionately allocated to general-degree programmes with more than 100 students. DAV was measured using three items locally validated, scoring from 0 for “more than 5 times” and 4 for “never” and provided a minimum score of 0 to a maximum possible score of 12. The minimum threshold score for the presence of DAV was seven. Response-rate for the study was 88.1% (n = 1136). The prevalence of DAV was 82.2% (95%CI:79.9%–84.4%) which was significantly associated with poor relationships with teachers, friends, lecturers, batchmates and seniors, having peers with high-delinquency-behaviour, participating in ragging and involving in politics. DAV is negatively associated with emotional-intelligence. Accepting violent behaviour is a huge problem among undergraduates, which was influenced by many university and relationship-related factors. Therefore, creating healthy relationships in various levels, improving emotional intelligence and introducing other ways to recognize seniority among students should be supported and institutionalized to end campus violence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bba534e84b4d48889669d05e854ce4e12023-04-17T04:07:46ZengElsevierSocial Sciences and Humanities Open2590-29112023-01-0171100459Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource settingFazla Fayaz0Irosha Nilaweera1Riyas Cassim2Dulani Samaranayake3Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, 160 Prof. Nandasena Kodagoda Road, Colombo, Sri Lanka; Corresponding author. No 65, Kumaradasa Place, Wellampitiya, Colombo, Sri Lanka.National Cancer Control Programme, 555, Elvitigala Mawatte, Colombo, 05, Sri LankaDepartment of Ayurvedha Western Province, 18, Nawala Road, Nugegoda, Sri LankaFaculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, 25, Kinsey Road, Colombo, 08, Sri LankaThe objective is to assess the prevalence and association of Dismissive-Attitude-towards-Violence(DAV) among second-year undergraduates in a lower-resource-setting. A descriptive-cross-sectional-study was carried out among 1290, second-year undergraduates in Sri Lanka using multi-stage-stratified cluster-sampling. Four universities were randomly selected from ten. Undergraduates from foreign-countries, those following external-degrees, distance-learning, clergymen, undergraduates of medical and allied-health were excluded. The cluster size was 30 and 43 clusters were allocated proportionately to the total second-year undergraduate population in each university and faculty. In each faculty, clusters were proportionately allocated to general-degree programmes with more than 100 students. DAV was measured using three items locally validated, scoring from 0 for “more than 5 times” and 4 for “never” and provided a minimum score of 0 to a maximum possible score of 12. The minimum threshold score for the presence of DAV was seven. Response-rate for the study was 88.1% (n = 1136). The prevalence of DAV was 82.2% (95%CI:79.9%–84.4%) which was significantly associated with poor relationships with teachers, friends, lecturers, batchmates and seniors, having peers with high-delinquency-behaviour, participating in ragging and involving in politics. DAV is negatively associated with emotional-intelligence. Accepting violent behaviour is a huge problem among undergraduates, which was influenced by many university and relationship-related factors. Therefore, creating healthy relationships in various levels, improving emotional intelligence and introducing other ways to recognize seniority among students should be supported and institutionalized to end campus violence.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123000645CampusDismissive attitudeLower-resource settingUndergraduatesViolence |
| spellingShingle | Fazla Fayaz Irosha Nilaweera Riyas Cassim Dulani Samaranayake Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting Social Sciences and Humanities Open Campus Dismissive attitude Lower-resource setting Undergraduates Violence |
| title | Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| title_full | Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| title_fullStr | Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| title_short | Ending campus violence: A cross-sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| title_sort | ending campus violence a cross sectional study among undergraduates to assess the silence majority in a lower resource setting |
| topic | Campus Dismissive attitude Lower-resource setting Undergraduates Violence |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123000645 |
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