Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make?
Introduction School bullying is a serious problem among tunisian children and adolesent. In our every day practice, we see a considerable number of suicide attempts among bullying victims. Our study tries to provide more information on this phenomenon, in order to organize efficient preventtion me...
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Introduction
School bullying is a serious problem among tunisian children and adolesent. In our every day practice, we see a considerable number of suicide attempts among bullying victims. Our study tries to provide more information on this phenomenon, in order to organize efficient preventtion measures.
Objectives
Measuring the prevalence of bullying victimization in the town of Sousse-Tunisia Comparing the prevalence found through a validated measurement tool and a closed end question
Methods
It is a cross-sectional study among a sample of 1127 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years old. The adolescents were divided in two groups the first group, composed of 527 adolescents, answered a closed end (yes/no) question “Have you been a victim of Bullying”; the second group, composed of 600 adolescents, responded to the “adolescent peer relation instrument”.
Results
The first group was composed of 48% of boys and 52% of girls with a mean age of 13,24 ± 0,96. The second group was composed of 50% of boys and 50% of girls with a mean age of 13.76 ±1.37. We found a bullying victimization prevalence of 11% for the first group versus 95.1% for the second group. For both groups we didn’t find a significant difference in the prevalence of bullying victimization according to sociodemographic factors except the higher family income that was associates to less bullying victimisation for the first group (p=0,04)
Conclusions
The high prevalence of bullying victimization we found using a validated measurement is alarming in terms of the urgency of interventions to prevent bullying in schools.
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd09c90e4c864e2899a26c30df724f672023-11-17T05:07:07ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S216S21610.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.575Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make?N. Brigui0A. Guedria1T. Brahim2R. Ayoub3Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, TunisiaChild And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, TunisiaChild And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, TunisiaResearch Laboratory, R05es10, Faculty Of Medicine Of Monastir, Tunisia, Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, monastir, Tunisia Introduction School bullying is a serious problem among tunisian children and adolesent. In our every day practice, we see a considerable number of suicide attempts among bullying victims. Our study tries to provide more information on this phenomenon, in order to organize efficient preventtion measures. Objectives Measuring the prevalence of bullying victimization in the town of Sousse-Tunisia Comparing the prevalence found through a validated measurement tool and a closed end question Methods It is a cross-sectional study among a sample of 1127 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years old. The adolescents were divided in two groups the first group, composed of 527 adolescents, answered a closed end (yes/no) question “Have you been a victim of Bullying”; the second group, composed of 600 adolescents, responded to the “adolescent peer relation instrument”. Results The first group was composed of 48% of boys and 52% of girls with a mean age of 13,24 ± 0,96. The second group was composed of 50% of boys and 50% of girls with a mean age of 13.76 ±1.37. We found a bullying victimization prevalence of 11% for the first group versus 95.1% for the second group. For both groups we didn’t find a significant difference in the prevalence of bullying victimization according to sociodemographic factors except the higher family income that was associates to less bullying victimisation for the first group (p=0,04) Conclusions The high prevalence of bullying victimization we found using a validated measurement is alarming in terms of the urgency of interventions to prevent bullying in schools. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821005757/type/journal_articleadolescentbullyingmeasurmentprevalence |
| spellingShingle | N. Brigui A. Guedria T. Brahim R. Ayoub Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? European Psychiatry adolescent bullying measurment prevalence |
| title | Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? |
| title_full | Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? |
| title_fullStr | Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? |
| title_short | Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make? |
| title_sort | measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents what difference does it make |
| topic | adolescent bullying measurment prevalence |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821005757/type/journal_article |
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