A school-based intervention to reduce bullying among adolescents – Experience from a rural setting in Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI:10.4038/jccpsl.v29i2.8578

Dilini Rupananda, D. Dissanayake, A. Lokubalasooriya

{"title":"A school-based intervention to reduce bullying among adolescents – Experience from a rural setting in Sri Lanka","authors":"Dilini Rupananda, D. Dissanayake, A. Lokubalasooriya","doi":"10.4038/jccpsl.v29i2.8578","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Bullying is a widespread problem among school going adolescents which causes significant impact on their mental wellbeing. It is important to implement necessary action to reduce bullying and promote mental health of the students.Objectives: To develop, implement a school-based intervention with multiple approaches and assess the effectiveness of it to reduce bullying among adolescent students of Kegalle District in Sri LankaMethods: Components of the intervention were developed involving different stakeholders related to adolescent mental health promotion in school setting. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in Kegalle Educational Zone and two schools were purposively selected for the intervention and control group.Results: Developed and implemented intervention was effective in reducing overall bullying and physical, verbal and relational bullying victimization among students (p≤0.001).Conclusions & Recommendations: The intervention developed with multiple approaches effectively improved the bullying victimization among school going adolescents in the intervention group after three months of the implementation.","PeriodicalId":120205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4038/jccpsl.v29i2.8578","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Introduction: Bullying is a widespread problem among school going adolescents which causes significant impact on their mental wellbeing. It is important to implement necessary action to reduce bullying and promote mental health of the students.Objectives: To develop, implement a school-based intervention with multiple approaches and assess the effectiveness of it to reduce bullying among adolescent students of Kegalle District in Sri LankaMethods: Components of the intervention were developed involving different stakeholders related to adolescent mental health promotion in school setting. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in Kegalle Educational Zone and two schools were purposively selected for the intervention and control group.Results: Developed and implemented intervention was effective in reducing overall bullying and physical, verbal and relational bullying victimization among students (p≤0.001).Conclusions & Recommendations: The intervention developed with multiple approaches effectively improved the bullying victimization among school going adolescents in the intervention group after three months of the implementation.

查看原文本刊更多论文

以学校为基础的减少青少年欺凌行为的干预措施——来自斯里兰卡农村环境的经验

欺凌是在校青少年中普遍存在的问题，对他们的心理健康造成了重大影响。重要的是要采取必要的行动，以减少欺凌和促进学生的心理健康。目标:制定和实施一项以学校为基础的多种方法干预措施，并评估其减少斯里兰卡凯格勒县青少年学生欺凌行为的有效性。方法:制定了干预措施的组成部分，涉及与学校环境中青少年心理健康促进有关的不同利益攸关方。在Kegalle教育区进行准实验研究，有意选择两所学校作为干预对照组。结果:制定和实施的干预措施在减少学生整体欺凌和身体、语言和关系欺凌受害方面是有效的(p≤0.001)。结论与建议:采用多种方法开发的干预措施在实施三个月后有效地改善了干预组在校青少年的欺凌受害情况。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of the College of Community Physicians of Sri Lanka

自引率

0.00%

发文量