Ocorrência e características da violência sofrida e exercida por adolescentes escolares de Cuiabá, MT

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Alencastro, Lidiane Cristina da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso; Brasil; Faculdade de Enfermagem (FAEN); UFMT CUC - Cuiabá; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adolescentes – Violência escolar; Epidemiologia; Saúde – Adolescente; Saúde pública – Enfermagem; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM; Teens - School violence; Epidemiology; Health – Teen; Public health - Nursing
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/345

Introduction: The increase of all forms of violence is now a worldwide phenomenon, representing a major challenge to public health. Specifically towards violence "strict sense" (intentional violence), teens are considered vulnerable, both in condition of victim and aggressor. Objective: examining the occurrence and characteristics of violence suffered and exerted by school teenagers from Cuiaba-Mato Grosso, in 2012. Methods: cross-sectional study, with high school teenagers from public schools of Cuiabá-MT. For data collection was used questionnaire closed and self-applicable. The data were processed by the Epi-Info program, applying the Chi-square test for bivariate analyses. Results: 2,786 teenagers were investigated, of whom 44.4% (1,236) became involved in situation of violence. Of these, 36.9% (456) only victims, 27.0% (334) only aggressors and 36.1% (446) as both victims and aggressors. Among adolescents in situations of violence (1236), largely declared being dark skin, aged 16-17 and in the first year of high school. Among teenagers in condition of victim (456), there was a predominance of females (69.5%). The predominant type of violence among the victims was bullying and physical violence. The Group of 12-13 years old suffered neglect and bullying; of 14-17 years old suffered more bullying; of 18-19 years old more physical violence. The parents and the boyfriend exerted more physical violence, colleagues have perpetrated more bullying, friends of the family practiced more sexual violence and gang members and unknown/others exercised more threat. The physical, sexual, moral violence, threat, abandonment and the testimony occurred more frequently, once, while bullying and cyberbullying fromtwice to 4 times, the psychological 5 to 10 times and the neglect and child labor remained continuously. At the residence of the teenager was practiced more physical violence; in the house of relatives more sexual violence; at school there were more bullying and on the street, threat. Most of the violence had ceased, with the exception of abandonment and neglect. Already among the teens who exercise violence (334), there was a predominance of males (59.6%) and 99.7% did not answer what was the type of violence. The boys assaulted more colleagues followed by unknown/other, while girls have more violence against colleagues followed by the brother; violence remained, with highest proportion for more than 2 years; the boys exercised more violence at school and on the street and the girls at school and in their own residence; the group of 14-15 years old and of 18-19 years old perpetrated more violence at school and on the street, while adolescents of 16-17 years old practiced more violent acts at school and in their own residence. For this group, the violence had ceased in 49.4% of cases. Conclusion: the results point to the need for measures to prevent and fight against violence, both suffered as exercised, in adolescence. It is worth noting those aggressor teenagers, as well as the victims, require care and attention, so that the cycle of violence is stopped, and thus, minimize and combat situations of violence.