Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Mohamed, Aml Abdel Shafy; Mahmoud, Safaa Rashad; Marzouk, Heba Kedees; Syan, Shadia Abd Elmoniem

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2023.285656

Bullying Experience among Deaf and Dumb Students at Assiut City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

² Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

³ Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt

⁴ Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt

10.21608/tsnj.2023.285656

Abstract

Background: Bullying is a widespread issue in schools all around the world.
Students with disabilities as deafness or dumbness are overrepresented in bullying
prevalence both perpetration and victimization. Aim: To assess the deaf and dumb
students' experience regarding bullying at Assiut city. Methods: A cross-sectional
descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted in two preparatory
schools for deaf and dumb at Assiut city. Sample: A purposive sample of 270
students (120 males and 150 females) was included in the study. Tools: two tools
were used. Tool (1): A structure interview questionnaire sheet included two parts.
Part (1): Personal characteristics of studied deaf and dumb students. Part (2) studied
students' history of exposure to different types of bullying. Tool (2): A modified child
adolescent bullying scale contains 20 items. Results: It was found that 91.1% of
studied students exposed to bullying, the most common type was verbal bullying and
males were exposed more than females by 66.7%, 59.5% respectively, there were
statistical significance relation between deaf and dumb students' total mean score of
bullying scale and their gender, failure in school and days of absenteeism.
Conclusion: the majority of studied deaf and dumb students had bullying experience;
nearly about half of them exposed to bullying in their classes, and more than one-third
of them are exposed to bullying by their classmate students which affected their desire
to go to school. Recommendation: A bullying prevention committee should be
formed at school to explore various factors associated with bullying.