Study the Effect of Implementation of a Health Education Program for Bullying Preventive Measures on Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate College of Medicine Students, Benha University: An Interventional Study | ||||
| Benha Medical Journal | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 18 August 2025 PDF (773.53 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/bmfj.2025.392017.2456 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Hala Mostafa Elhady1; Sheref M. Eltaher 2; Marwa Salah Eldien Abd El Raouf3; Eman Mahmoud Shebl3; Neama Galal Hussein  1
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| 1Community Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Egypt. Clinical Medicine Department, Al Rayan National College of Medicine, Madinah, KSA. | ||||
| 3Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Bullying is a significant social problem that affected educational institutions everywhere, including those in Egypt. Objective: is to evaluate Benha College of Medicine student's self-efficacy and self-esteem both before and after a bullying prevention education session. Methods: Two phases: Phase I: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 350 medical students at Benha Faculty of Medicine. Phase II: An interventional study “a quasi-experimental study” was conducted on 100 students, using an online questionnaire about general knowledge of bullying, history of exposure to bullying or sharing in it, places of bullying and questions about self-efficacy and self-esteem. Results: 73.1% of medical students were victims of bullying during the last year. 42.0% of them offended their colleagues also. One hundred percent of the group studied confirmed that they were exposed to cyberbullying in the last month. 57.4% of the bullied students were bullied by females in their grade; 51.2 % of the studied group did nothing after their exposure to bullying. There was a highly statistical significant difference between self- efficacy scale of pre and post interventional studied groups. Conclusions: Bullying affected the majority of the group under study, and there were highly statistically significant differences in self-efficacy and self-esteem before and after health education. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Bullying; College of Medicine; self efficacy; self esteem | ||||
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