Situations of violence experienced by students in the state capitals and the Federal District: results from the National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE 2012)

Abstract

Teenagers are exposed to different forms of violence, and the data from the National Survey of School Health can support the planning of preventive actions.

School-based interventions for teen dating violence prevention: integrative literature review

“…The literature on IPV prevention interventions is growing. School is a privileged setting for these initiatives because it is the first environment where young people experience their identities apart from their families (Malta et al, 2015). In view of the above, this study aims to identify primary IPV prevention interventions that have been implemented in school settings.…”

Institutional links to cope with school violence: an exploratory study

“…School is one's first social group, besides the family, and in this environment the concepts of citizenship, group experience, feeling of belonging and living with differences and frustrations will be developed. 3,9 Given the current contexts and experiences of children and adolescents, which is not the scope of this study, school violence has become a relevant problem in the agenda of education, health and other sectors of child and adolescent protection.…”

“…According to the PeNSE, one of ten adolescents reported feeling unsafe commuting between home and school and at school, with a higher percentage among adolescents of public schools, which are usually located in places of risk, with high rates of violence in their surrounding areas. 3 School violence appears as a paradoxical problem, since school institutions should provide protection and security to adolescents, ensuring a healthy environment of individual and collective achievements and assertion to these actors. 3 The WHO proposes an ecological model to understand violence, based on the evidence that no single factor can explain a greater risk to or greater protection from interpersonal violence for some people or groups.…”

“…3 School violence appears as a paradoxical problem, since school institutions should provide protection and security to adolescents, ensuring a healthy environment of individual and collective achievements and assertion to these actors. 3 The WHO proposes an ecological model to understand violence, based on the evidence that no single factor can explain a greater risk to or greater protection from interpersonal violence for some people or groups. This phenomenon results from the interaction of multiple factors at individual, relational, community and social levels, 1 requiring coordinated actions and interventions among different care levels that consider the aspects mentioned above.…”

“…It should be noted that adolescence is a key period in human development that enables the implementation of actions that will promote a healthy adult life. 3,5 Considering that building a social network can provide a new role for the school nowadays and new mechanisms to cope with school violence, the aim of this study was to identify and analyze the institutional links of public secondary schools to cope with school violence.…”