Factors contributing to wide spread of violence among primary school children in Cairo governorate / Lamiaa Saad Abdallah Mahmoud ; Supervised Effat Mohamed Elkarmalay , Heba Magdy Sharaa

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Community Health Nursing

That day{u2019}s violence among primary school children has been recognized as a major health problem all over the world, requiring the efforts of health care professionals. The aim of this study was to assess the factors contributing to widespread of violence among primary school children in Cairo governorate . A cross-sectional research design was utilized in this study. Setting; three primary governmental schools were selected randomly from different educational directorates at Cairo governorate. A multistage random sample of 180 students from 5th and 6th grade and 20 teachers from the three schools were included in the study. Two tools were used to collect data pertinent to the study. First tool: Student questionnaire regarding violence which included two parts: a) demographic characteristics of the children and their parents such as age, sex, gender, parent education, b) data about factors outside the school which contributing to wide spread of violence among school children which included data pertinent to media violence, family violence and personality traits of school children. Second tool: Teacher 's violence against school student questionnaire. Results indicated that, there is a highly statistically significant positive correlations between all factors that contributing to violence among school children

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