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.
Highlights
School violence is a problem that involves a lot of bad consequences for the lives of students
Why was this study done? This study was conducted to enable health and education professionals who work with prevention of violence in schools, within the scope of the School Health Program, to learn about the main violence that occurs in the school environment
The actions in health directed towards the students are relevant once that this public lives most of their significant SOCIAL experiences and interactions at school
Summary
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. There was a significant statistical association between violent behavior and gender (being a boy), having a habit of watching movies and playing video games with violent content, skipping classes and having a regular to bad relationship with teachers
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