Feeling Unsafe at School Among Adolescents in 13 Asian and European Countries: Occurrence and Associated Factors

Frontiers in Psychiatry

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Jorge C. Srabstein¹  Liping Li²  Mai Nguyen Huong³  Samir Kumar Praharaj⁵  Say How Ong⁶  Sigita Lesinskiene⁷  Henriette Kyrrestad⁸  Tjhin Wiguna⁹  Zahra Zamani¹⁰  the EACMHS Study Group¹¹  Shahin Akhondzadeh¹¹  S. Fung¹¹  Ali Najafi¹¹  Foivos Zaravinos-Tsakos¹¹  N. Khong¹¹  Hod Hasharon¹¹  Kalliopi Triantafyllou¹¹  Ngoc Thanh Minh¹¹  G. Avinash¹¹  Sturla Fossum¹¹  Jain Praveen A¹¹  Yi Tan Ren¹¹  Masayoshi Ogura¹¹  Zhekuan Peng¹¹  Norbert Skokauskas¹¹  Meytal Grimland¹¹  Maryam Mohseny¹¹  Shoko Hamada¹¹  Rippinen Tatiana O¹¹  Nadezhda B¹¹  Jerrine. Z¹¹  Roshan Chudal¹¹  Raden Irawati¹¹  Rini Sekartini¹¹  Daniel. S¹¹  Limawan Albert Prabowo¹¹  Anat Brunstein Klomek¹²  Gerasimos Kolaitis¹³  Elina Tiiri¹⁴  Andre Sourander¹⁴  Lauri Sillanmäki¹⁵  Helena R. Slobodskaya¹⁶  Yuko Mori¹⁹  Lotta Lempinen¹⁹  Hitoshi Kaneko²⁰ 

[1] 0Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States;

[2] 1Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China;

[3] 2Department of Psychiatry, Vietnam National Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam;

[4] 3Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India;

[5] 4Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India;

[6] 5Department of Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore;

[7] 6Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Psychiatry, Vilnius, Lithuania;

[8] 7Faculty of Health Sciences, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway;

[9] 8Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia;

[10] 9Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

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[12] Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel;

[13] Department of Child Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece;

[14] Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, Finland;

[15] Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland;

[16] Department of Medicine, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia;

[17] Department of Medicine, Scientific Research Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia;

[18] Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, United States;

[19] INVEST Research Flagship Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland;

[20] Psychological Support and Research Center for Human Development, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan;

关键词: school safety;    school climate;    mental health;    adolescent;    associated factors;    feeling unsafe;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2022.823609

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundResearch on perceived school safety has been largely limited to studies conducted in Western countries and there has been a lack of large-scale cross-national studies on the topic.MethodsThe present study examined the occurrence of adolescents who felt unsafe at school and the associated factors of perceived school safety in 13 Asian and European countries. The data were based on 21,688 adolescents aged 13-15 (11,028 girls, 10,660 boys) who completed self-administered surveys between 2011 and 2017. Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals.FindingsThe number of adolescents who felt unsafe at school varied widely across countries, with a mean occurrence of 31.4% for the total sample: 31.3% for girls, and 31.1% for boys. The findings revealed strong independent associations between feeling unsafe and individual and school-related factors, such as being bullied, emotional and behavioral problems and feeling that teachers did not care. The study also found large variations in perceived school safety between schools in many countries.ConclusionThe findings emphasize the need to create safe educational environments for all students, based on positive relationships with teachers and peers. School-based interventions to prevent bullying and promote mental health should be a natural part of school safety promotion.

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