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A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China
BACKGROUND: Bullying is common among adolescents and can have an adverse effect on victims. This study aims to implement and evaluate an educational intervention on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China. METHODS: The four-session educational intervention was designe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35139844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12669-0 |
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author | Peng, Zhekuan Li, Liping Su, Xuefen Lu, Yaogui |
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description | BACKGROUND: Bullying is common among adolescents and can have an adverse effect on victims. This study aims to implement and evaluate an educational intervention on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China. METHODS: The four-session educational intervention was designed based on the knowledge-attitude-practice model and conducted from September to December 2018, with one session implemented a month. The intervention methods included holding bullying-themed class meetings, distributing bullying educational leaflets at school, and playing anti-bullying videos in class. The post-intervention assessment was measured at the end of session 4. The chi-square tests were used to examine the changes from baseline to after intervention in the intervention and control group. RESULTS: The results showed that the intervention group’s awareness of bullying (percentage of the students who knew bullying very well, male: before vs. after intervention: 16.3% vs. 37.6%, P < 0.001; female: before vs. after intervention: 11.8% vs. 38.8%, P < 0.01), and the female students’ acceptance of anti-bullying education (before vs. after intervention: 89.3% vs. 97.6%, P < 0.05) was improved after intervention. The incidence of cyber victimization (male: 32.3% vs. 18.5%, P < 0.05; female: 22.4 to 7.0%, P < 0.01) was also reduced in the intervention group, with the reduction in the incidence of social (19.4% vs. 8.7%, P < 0.05), verbal (40.9% vs. 27.2%, P < 0.05) victimization, and peer (36.6% vs. 20.7%, P < 0.05) and social bullying (11.8% vs. 2.2%, P < 0.01) among male students after intervention. CONCLUSIONS: This educational intervention was the first important step to develop effective intervention strategies for bullying prevention among junior high school students in China. |
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spelling | pubmed-88266992022-02-10 A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China Peng, Zhekuan Li, Liping Su, Xuefen Lu, Yaogui BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Bullying is common among adolescents and can have an adverse effect on victims. This study aims to implement and evaluate an educational intervention on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China. METHODS: The four-session educational intervention was designed based on the knowledge-attitude-practice model and conducted from September to December 2018, with one session implemented a month. The intervention methods included holding bullying-themed class meetings, distributing bullying educational leaflets at school, and playing anti-bullying videos in class. The post-intervention assessment was measured at the end of session 4. The chi-square tests were used to examine the changes from baseline to after intervention in the intervention and control group. RESULTS: The results showed that the intervention group’s awareness of bullying (percentage of the students who knew bullying very well, male: before vs. after intervention: 16.3% vs. 37.6%, P < 0.001; female: before vs. after intervention: 11.8% vs. 38.8%, P < 0.01), and the female students’ acceptance of anti-bullying education (before vs. after intervention: 89.3% vs. 97.6%, P < 0.05) was improved after intervention. The incidence of cyber victimization (male: 32.3% vs. 18.5%, P < 0.05; female: 22.4 to 7.0%, P < 0.01) was also reduced in the intervention group, with the reduction in the incidence of social (19.4% vs. 8.7%, P < 0.05), verbal (40.9% vs. 27.2%, P < 0.05) victimization, and peer (36.6% vs. 20.7%, P < 0.05) and social bullying (11.8% vs. 2.2%, P < 0.01) among male students after intervention. CONCLUSIONS: This educational intervention was the first important step to develop effective intervention strategies for bullying prevention among junior high school students in China. BioMed Central 2022-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8826699/ /pubmed/35139844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12669-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Peng, Zhekuan Li, Liping Su, Xuefen Lu, Yaogui A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title | A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title_full | A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title_fullStr | A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title_full_unstemmed | A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title_short | A pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in Shantou, China |
title_sort | pilot intervention study on bullying prevention among junior high school students in shantou, china |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8826699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35139844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12669-0 |
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