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Bullying among Egyptian medical students is real: A cross sectional study

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Medical students are one particular group with high risk for bullying with its subsequent negative impact on their well-being, morale, compassion. Objectives: to assess the prevalence of different forms of bullying among Egyptian medical students, their socio-demographic characteristics as well as the presence of associated mental health problems. .Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on a convenience sample of 752 medical students in Egypt from nine universities between January 2020 and June 2020 using a structured pretested self-administered digital questionnaire based on validated literature. Results: Among our study participants, 97.2% encountered an act of bullying, whether as the bully, the victim or a bystander. Being a victim by 83.3% while being a bully was reported in 57.7%. Students who experienced being both a victim and a bully represented 54.8%. The most prevailing type of bullying was verbal 53.7% as a bully, and 72.9%% as victim. Physical bullying was the least prevalent; 3.5% as bully and 9.7% as victim. Regression analysis showed that presence of anxiety; depression and family violence were significant predictors of bullying experience. Conclusion: There is high prevalence of bullying among university medical students especially verbal type, this might have an impact the future of those students, and detrimental effect on the society .

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10.21608/efmj.2023.147408.1101

Keywords

bully, bullying, Medical Student, Victim

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wafaa

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Abdel-Whahed

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Yousif

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Fayoum University

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wafaayousif313@yahoo.com

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El-Fayoum

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Randa

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Eldessouki

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Fayoum university, faculty of medicine

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ranaeldessouki@hotmail.com

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6

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1

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35682

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2022-05-01

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2022-07-21

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2022-05-01

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124

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143

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2356-9581

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2356-959X

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The Egyptian Family Medicine Journal

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Bullying among Egyptian medical students is real: A cross sectional study

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25 Dec 2024