Bio-psychosocial Effect Regarding Harassment among Secondary School Female Students in Cairo Governorate | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 28, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2018, Page 401-413 PDF (590.07 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2018.192194 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mona Abd-El-Kareem Hegazy1; Abeer Nasr-El-Deen Elsadek2 | ||||
| 1Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Lecturer of Maternity and Newborn Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Beni Seuf University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Many female students experience harassment and victims of harassment have higher risk regarding well-being and negative impact on biopsychosocial health of secondary female students. Research Aim: assess the biopsychosocial effect regarding harassment among secondary school female students in Cairo governorate. Methodology: Research design: A cross sectional research design was utilized at August 2017 - January 2018. Setting: The current research was done in EL-Sanya female secondary school at El-Sayeda Zainab educational directorate, Cairo Governorate. Subject: purposive sample was used in the current research (260 students) who exposed to harassment and aged from 16 to 17 years. Tools of data collection: There were three tools; 1 st tool pre designed questionnaire included demographic data, different types of harassment and physical effect of harassment, 2nd tool was Social Emotional Health Module and 3rd tool was Self-Report Depression Scale (CES-D Scale). Results: 67.7% of studied female students exposed to verbal harassment and 6.3% of them exposed to sexual harassment. Also, 40% of studied female students had negative belief in self, 57.3% of them had negative beliefs in others. Conclusions: Regarding physical effect related harassment were more than one third of female students suffered from fatigue and one third of them suffered from loss of appetite. Related to social emotional effect, more than one third of studied female students had positive social emotional health, while more than half of them had negative social emotional health. According to depression effect related harassment, one fifth of studied female students had low depression, less than one fifth had moderate depression and minority of them had severe depression. There was high significant relation between type of harassment and depression and social- emotional health with p value <0.01. Recommendation: Health education programs for female students regarding harassment and relevant biopsychosocial consequences in schools. Empowerment role of obstetrics and gynecological nurses regarding early biopsychosocial management of victims and further researches regarding biopsychosocial effect of harassment among female students. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Harassment; Biopsychosocial; Female students; secondary school | ||||
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