Experiences of violence among students of public schools

Abstract

Introduction: School violence it’s a problem that involves a lot of bad consequences for the life’s students. So preventing and research about it are very important.
 Objective: The objective of this study was identify the experiences of violence of students from public schools participating in the PSE - School Health Program and SPE - Health and Prevention in the Schools of Florianópolis.
 Methods: Participants were 871 students from the 9th grade of elementary school to the 3rd year of high school with a mean age of 15 years and 6 months.
 Results: Regarding the experiences of violence, 81.6% stated that they had already witnessed scenes of violence, with 51.1% of these scenes occurring at school. Besides, 28% of the participants reported having already suffered prejudice at school. There was a statistically significant association between violent behavior and being a boy, having a habit of watching movies and playing video games with violent content, killing classes and having a regular to bad relationship with teachers.
 Conclusions: Violence is part of student’s daily activities, involving a broad context and it is pretty much related to school.

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