Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City | ||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 201-219 PDF (784.5 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2023.285656 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Aml Abdel shafy Mohamed1; Safaa Rashad Mahmoud2; Heba Kedees Marzouk3; Shadia Abd Elmoniem Syan4 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt | ||
| 2Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt | ||
| 3Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt | ||
| 4Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Bullying is a widespread issue in schools all around the world. Students with disabilities as deafness or dumbness are overrepresented in bullying prevalence both perpetration and victimization. Aim: To assess the deaf and dumb students' experience regarding bullying at Assiut city. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in two preparatory schools for deaf and dumb at Assiut city. Sample: A purposive sample of 270 students (120 males and 150 females) was included in the study. Tools: two tools were used. Tool (1): A structure interview questionnaire sheet included two parts. Part (1): Personal characteristics of studied deaf and dumb students. Part (2) studied students' history of exposure to different types of bullying. Tool (2): A modified child adolescent bullying scale contains 20 items. Results: It was found that 91.1% of studied students exposed to bullying, the most common type was verbal bullying and males were exposed more than females by 66.7%, 59.5% respectively, there were statistical significance relation between deaf and dumb students' total mean score of bullying scale and their gender, failure in school and days of absenteeism. Conclusion: the majority of studied deaf and dumb students had bullying experience; nearly about half of them exposed to bullying in their classes, and more than one-third of them are exposed to bullying by their classmate students which affected their desire to go to school. Recommendation: A bullying prevention committee should be formed at school to explore various factors associated with bullying. | ||
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