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Measuring bullying victimization through a closed ended question and a validated measure in a population of tunisian adolescents: What difference does it make?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

N. Brigui ,
A. Guedria ,
T. Brahim  and
R. Ayoub
N. Brigui
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
A. Guedria
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
T. Brahim*
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia
R. Ayoub
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, R05es10, Faculty Of Medicine Of Monastir, Tunisia, Psychiatry Department, Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, monastir, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

School bullying is a serious problem among tunisian children and adolesent. In our every day practice, we see a considerable number of suicide attempts among bullying victims. Our study tries to provide more information on this phenomenon, in order to organize efficient preventtion measures.

Objectives

Measuring the prevalence of bullying victimization in the town of Sousse-Tunisia Comparing the prevalence found through a validated measurement tool and a closed end question

Methods

It is a cross-sectional study among a sample of 1127 adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years old. The adolescents were divided in two groups the first group, composed of 527 adolescents, answered a closed end (yes/no) question “Have you been a victim of Bullying”; the second group, composed of 600 adolescents, responded to the “adolescent peer relation instrument”.

Results

The first group was composed of 48% of boys and 52% of girls with a mean age of 13,24 ± 0,96. The second group was composed of 50% of boys and 50% of girls with a mean age of 13.76 ±1.37. We found a bullying victimization prevalence of 11% for the first group versus 95.1% for the second group. For both groups we didn’t find a significant difference in the prevalence of bullying victimization according to sociodemographic factors except the higher family income that was associates to less bullying victimisation for the first group (p=0,04)

Conclusions

The high prevalence of bullying victimization we found using a validated measurement is alarming in terms of the urgency of interventions to prevent bullying in schools.

Keywords

adolescentbullyingmeasurmentprevalence
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S216
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