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YOUTH VIOLENCE: A QUESTIONNAIRE BASED STUDY IN “MISR UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY”

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Rationale and Background: Youth violence presents a significant public health problem in Egypt, particularly among early university students. The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence and the characteristics of violence and violence-related behaviors among early adulthood university students. Participants and Methods: Questionnaires were distributed to 300 Misr University for Science and Technology university students' (18-24 years), either during the study day or at university facilities. All students at each site were asked several questions about recent violence-related behaviors (including use of threats, fighting, weapon carrying, and weapon use). Prevalence of each violence-related behavior was reported within, and stratified by gender, age, and other characteristics expected to influence the behaviors. Results: Age group from 21 to 22 years represented (56%), females were (55.67%), single (97.67%). The majority was Egyptian (82.33%) and the fifth academic year students were (40.67%). Most of the participants were living with family (74.33%), had religious education (84.33%) and non-smokers (85.67%) with no drug or alcoholic consumption (97.00%). Conclusion: Most of the participants never ever stabbed someone or had weapon involvement and most of them were not threatened to hit anyone or were threatened by any one respectively but, (55.67%) was yelled at someone and (39.67%) of the participants had recent fight behavior, (30.25%) of them was hurt and (26.67%) of participants were exposed to sexual harassment and a statistically significant relation was present between academic level affection, various measured predisposing factors and youth violence

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10.21608/ejfsat.2017.45680

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violence, Youth, fighting, weapons, wounds

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Nancy M.

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Zaghloul

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Lecturer of forensic medicine and clinical toxicology, Misr University for Science and Technology

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Sarah A.

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Khater

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Lecturer of forensic medicine and clinical toxicology, Misr University for Science and Technology

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Mona M.

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Ali

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Lecturer of forensic medicine and clinical toxicology, Cairo university

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Sherif A.

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Hetta

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Lecturer of community medicine, Misr University for Science and Technology

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17

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1

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971

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2017-06-01

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2017-04-24

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2017-06-01

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37

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52

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1687-0875

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2535-1915

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The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023