Severe bullying risk factors in three Peruvian highland private schools

Authors

  • Isabel Amemiya Departamento Académico de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.
  • Miguel Oliveros Departamento Académico de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.
  • Armando Barrientos Ingeniero Estadístico. Unidad de Investigación, Instituto de Salud del Niño. Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v70i4.925

Keywords:

Bullying, school health, risk factors.

Abstract

Objective: To identify severe bullying risk factors in three highland Peruvian zones private school students. Design: Survey type study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Fifth elementary school to fifth high school private school students. Interventions: A survey validated in previous studies to identify school violence (bullying) was applied to 736 students from Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Cusco (Sicuani) private schools between fifth year of elementary school and fifth year of high school. We considered severe bullying when they answered positively five or more of the nine questions referring to types of bullying. We compared 37 students with severe bullying and 74 students randomly selected from the group not having bullying. With bivariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression analysis we identified factors significantly associated to severe bullying. Main outcome measures: Risk factors for severe bullying. Results: Severe bullying was significantly associated to parents’ reaction when knowing the fact, repeated threatening in spite of bullying communication, presence of school gangs, having gang friends, and possessing a physical defect. Logistic regression found significant association with parents’ reaction, gang presence, and possessing a physical defect. Conclusions: Severe bullying is associated to multiple risk factors that can and must be detected early because of the psychological damage generating in the students.

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Published

2009-12-31

Issue

Vol. 70 No. 4 (2009)

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Copyright (c) 2009 Isabel Amemiya, Miguel Oliveros, Armando Barrientos

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Amemiya I, Oliveros M, Barrientos A. Severe bullying risk factors in three Peruvian highland private schools. An Fac med [Internet]. 2009 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];70(4):255-8. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/925