Abstract
Abstract Objectives: to estimate the prevalence ofpeer victimization (VI-P) and to identify factors associated to it. Methods: a cross sectional study based on a state-representativesample; 2555 students from primary and secondary schools of Campeche, in the academic year 2015-2016 participated. They were interviewed face to face. VI-P was analyzed by sex, age and various school-related aspects with prevalence rate and 95% confidence interval. The analysis of interactions among the studied factors was carried out using a hierarchical log-lineal model. With the significant terms,a multiviarite analysis using a logistic model was performed. Based on this model, maximum and minimum predictive values for VI-P were calculated by odds inverse transformation. Results: the global prevalence of VI-P was 60.4% (CI95%= 58.6-62.3). The prevalence of violence physical, psycho-emotional, patrimonial, and sexual, were 28.8, 52.9, 26.5, and 8.7%, respectively. Students in the first year, who were male, had classes scheduled in the evening, attended a public school and resided in a municipality of high/highest margination index, had the highest probability (75.3%) of suffering VI-P. Conclusions: given the high levels of VI-P found, and its possible effects, it is necessary implement truly effective measures to prevent it.
Highlights
Victimization by peers at school (VI-P) is a growing psychosocial and health problem affecting a considerable number of children and adolescents which, depending on the intensity of inflicted violence, can have a variety of serious consequences, negatively affecting their self-esteem, school performance and development, school dropout, depression, mental health problems, psychosomatic alterations, inability to relate with others, and –inextreme cases– suicidal ideation and suicide.[6,8,9,10,11]
It is alarming to find that 60.4% of the students interviewed had suffered at least one episode of some form of VI-P at school in the academic year studied
The VI-P prevalence at school found in the present study coincides with that reported by our research working-group in a case study of one secondary school in Ciudad el Carmen, Campeche, namely a prevalence for this type of violence of 60.2%
Summary
Ideally considered as one of the main places for shaping and developing children’s potential to the maximum, can be a place which involves high levels of risk for them, as has been documented by numerous studies on violence in school settings.[3,4,5]. Victimization by peers at school (VI-P) is defined as the presence of physical, psychoemotional, patrimonial or sexual violence received from school peers.[6] Meta-analyses have demonstrated the negative relationship between peer victimization (repeated harassment, power unevenness between stalker and victim, intention to cause harm by the offender) and mental and physical health.[7] VI-P is a growing psychosocial and health problem affecting a considerable number of children and adolescents which, depending on the intensity of inflicted violence, can have a variety of serious consequences, negatively affecting their self-esteem, school performance and development, school dropout, depression, mental health problems, psychosomatic alterations, inability to relate with others, and –inextreme cases– suicidal ideation and suicide.[6,8,9,10,11] It is associated with the reception, and perpetration of violence towards women, as well other forms of adult violence
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