Education is a sector that has the potential to become a critical area of action for the full exploitation of ICT. Educational systems of developed and developing countries have an ever-increasing tendency to apply ICT to education, in an attempt to prepare their students for the future's society. This thesis attempted to explore what kind of ICT is used in the Greek Primary Schools and develop...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between bullying (both directly and indirectly) and indicators of psychosocial health for boys and girls separately. STUDY DESIGN A school-based questionnaire survey of bullying, depression, suicidal ideation, and delinquent behavior. SETTING Primary schools in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS A total of 4811 children aged 9 to 13. RESULTS Dep...

OBJECTIVE To understand school bullying from the perspective of teachers and reflect about the possible actions of the health area when coping with it. The guidelines of the School Health Program of the Ministries of Health and Education were used to reach that purpose. METHOD A qualitative study carried out with teachers of a public school in Minas Gerais. Focus groups were used to collect d...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of experience in school bullying and family violence, satisfaction with the preventive-promotional program, knowledge about methods for opposing violence and attitudes toward the role of the family physician in bullying prevention. MATERIALS AND METHODS The project was conducted by family physicians, nurses and sixth year medical stu...

School violence (bullying), is currently considered a growing public health issue across the globe. It is essential to intervene in order to improve the quality of life of children/adolescents at school. Therefore, it should be a research priority to include the issue in the agenda of nurses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the results of an anti-violence program implemented with 30...

There have been acknowledgments of the potential impact physical setting on how children behave in several contexts. School as an environment, where spend most their time throughout year, can affect they certain situations. Bullying has highlighted one prevailing problems occurring schools, which predominantly takes place school playgrounds. This study aims to identify playground design attribu...

Why do some countries, regions and schools have more bullying than others? What socio-economic, socio-political and other larger contextual factors predict school bullying? These open questions inspired this study with 53.316 5th- and 9th-grade students (5% of the national student population in these grades), from 1,000 schools in Colombia. Students completed a national test of citizenship comp...

BACKGROUND Overweight is a potential risk factor for peer victimization in late childhood and adolescence. The current study investigated the association between BMI in early primary school and different bullying involvement roles (uninvolved, bully, victim, and bully-victim) as reported by teachers and children themselves. METHODS In a population-based study in the Netherlands, measured BMI ...

OBJECTIVE The study seeks to determine the nature, extent and effects of emotional abuse; and who the perpetrators are in Zimbabwean primary schools. METHOD Data collection was twofold because this involved reported cases of emotional abuse and the use of two questionnaires to collect data on the forms of emotional abuse perpetrated on pupils by teachers. First, data of reported cases of emot...