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

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1 Fayoum University

2 Fayoum university, faculty of medicine

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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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