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Bullying among undergraduate medical students at Tanta University, Egypt: a cross-sectional study

INTRODUCTION: Bullying is an aggressive behaviour that involves unwanted negative actions, which are repeated over time that can negatively impact a person. AIM: To explore bullying behaviours experienced by Tanta University undergraduate students during their study in clinical medical education. ME...

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Autores principales: Elghazally, Noha Mohammed, Atallah, Asmaa Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32877320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19932820.2020.1816045
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description INTRODUCTION: Bullying is an aggressive behaviour that involves unwanted negative actions, which are repeated over time that can negatively impact a person. AIM: To explore bullying behaviours experienced by Tanta University undergraduate students during their study in clinical medical education. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Faculty of Medicine, during the period between first of October 2018 to end of May 2019. A stratified random sample was used to select medical students who rolled fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year classes at the academic year 2018–2019. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire included questions regarding demographic characteristics, history of exposure to different types of bullying and the response of bullied students. RESULTS: Findings of this study revealed that 71.1% of studied sample faced bullying during their medical study. The most frequently reported types were verbal (51.9%), behavioural (44.8%), being ignored (24.4%), written (17.8%) and physical (15.8%). About half of students (49.4%) were exposed to multiple forms of bullying. Male students were more exposed to physical, written and being ignored, whereas females were more witnessed to verbal and behavioural ones as follows: (30.7% vs 18.9% physical type, 72.5% vs 74.8% verbal, 28.1 vs 24.9% written, 57.9% vs 68.3% behavioural and 38.5% vs 32.4% being ignored), respectively. Fellow students (56.3%) were the most frequent perpetrators of mistreatment actions. The majority of students (91.3%) chose not to report bullying behaviours. Having mental health problems (0.00*) or disability (0.01*) were significantly more potential to experience mistreatment. DISCUSSION: Large proportion of medical students faced many forms of bullying. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Applying an effective policy to stop bullying with support for medical students may help to minimize this phenomenon.
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spelling pubmed-76465352020-11-17 Bullying among undergraduate medical students at Tanta University, Egypt: a cross-sectional study Elghazally, Noha Mohammed Atallah, Asmaa Omar Libyan J Med Original Article INTRODUCTION: Bullying is an aggressive behaviour that involves unwanted negative actions, which are repeated over time that can negatively impact a person. AIM: To explore bullying behaviours experienced by Tanta University undergraduate students during their study in clinical medical education. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Faculty of Medicine, during the period between first of October 2018 to end of May 2019. A stratified random sample was used to select medical students who rolled fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year classes at the academic year 2018–2019. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire included questions regarding demographic characteristics, history of exposure to different types of bullying and the response of bullied students. RESULTS: Findings of this study revealed that 71.1% of studied sample faced bullying during their medical study. The most frequently reported types were verbal (51.9%), behavioural (44.8%), being ignored (24.4%), written (17.8%) and physical (15.8%). About half of students (49.4%) were exposed to multiple forms of bullying. Male students were more exposed to physical, written and being ignored, whereas females were more witnessed to verbal and behavioural ones as follows: (30.7% vs 18.9% physical type, 72.5% vs 74.8% verbal, 28.1 vs 24.9% written, 57.9% vs 68.3% behavioural and 38.5% vs 32.4% being ignored), respectively. Fellow students (56.3%) were the most frequent perpetrators of mistreatment actions. The majority of students (91.3%) chose not to report bullying behaviours. Having mental health problems (0.00*) or disability (0.01*) were significantly more potential to experience mistreatment. DISCUSSION: Large proportion of medical students faced many forms of bullying. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: Applying an effective policy to stop bullying with support for medical students may help to minimize this phenomenon. Taylor & Francis 2020-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7646535/ /pubmed/32877320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19932820.2020.1816045 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Bullying among undergraduate medical students at Tanta University, Egypt: a cross-sectional study
title_short Bullying among undergraduate medical students at Tanta University, Egypt: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32877320
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19932820.2020.1816045
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