An Educational Intervention Concerning Violence Related Attitudes, Behaviors and Influences among Adolescents

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant Lecturer of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing - Faculty of Nursing - Beni Sueif University

2 Prof. of Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University

3 Prof. of Pediatric Medicine- Faculty of Medicine - Zagazig University

4 Assistant Prof. of Psychiatric/ Mental Health Nursing- Faculty of Nursing - Ain Shams University

Abstract

Background: Violence against adolescents is understood as being any sort of
mistreatment of adolescents within or outside of the family environment. The
aggressor inflicts light or severe damage, the causes of which can be related to
individual, family, socioeconomic, environmental or cultural factors. Aim: The aim
of this study was to investigate the effect of implementing an educational intervention
concerning violence among adolescents. Sample& setting: Assessment was done for
(500) students from seven prep-schools (one school from each educational sector) in
Beni Sueif Governorate to assess violence-related attitudes and behaviors among
adolescents and assess factors that lead to violence related attitudes and behaviors
among adolescents. One school was selected randomly from the seven schools of
seven educational sectors’ to implement the program. The sample was consisted of
138 students. Tools: Four main tools were used for data collection; Individual
Adolescent Characteristics as: Sociodemographic questionnaire, Attitude toward
Violence Scale, Aggression Scale and Leisure Activity Teen Conflict Survey, Family
Characteristics (Family Relationship Characteristics Scale), School Characteristics
(Classroom Climate Scale) and Community Characteristics (Children’s Exposure to
Community Violence Scale). Results: The main findings of the study revealed that:
Violence attitude among the studied sample was positive (>25) in 36.2%, aggressive
behavior was in 24.2% among of the studied children, adolescents' views concerning
school characteristic was negative (<20) in 80% of the studied adolescents, in relation
to reporting of violent behavior, and prevalence of exposure to violent acts and
crimes was positive (>30) among 48.2% of the studied adolescents. Conclusion: The
program has succeeded in inducing statistically significant improvement in the study
samples' attitude toward violence, aggressive behavior, and prevalence of cohesion
was detected among 20% of the studied children had positive awareness toward
reporting of violent behavior to school personnel after implementation of the
program. Recommendations: The study recommended that nurses must work to
increase awareness and develop the skills of both teachers and parents, to use
alternatives other than the corporal punishment.

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