TY - JOUR ID - TI - KAP Study of University Students about Bullying in Sulaimani/Iraq AU - Bushra Mohammed Ali PY - 2021 VL - 34 IS - 2 SP - 64 EP - 72 JO - IRAQI JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE المجلة العراقية لطب المجتمع SN - 16845382 AB - Background: Bullying is defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior leads to hurt another person, either physically, emotionally or mentally. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power, over one or more persons who feel unable to stop it from opening. Objectives: To identify knowledge, attitude, and practice of bullying among universities students and to compare between females’ and males’ and their knowledge, attitude, and practice of bullying.Study design: A cross sectional study was conducted on a convenient sample of 926 university students of Sulaimani city, from 28th of Feberuary until 30th of Abril 2021.Data were collected by a self-administrative questionnaire which composed of questions of socio-demographic status, seven questions about students' knowledge, for the attitude nine questions and twelve questions about students practice Analysis was done by using Chi square for finding the association.Results: Nearly 39 % of the students got bullied at school, the association was significant between gender and their getting bullied (P- Value = 0.02). About (45.5 %) of the students answered that females exposed more to bullying, the association was significant, (P- Value = 0.043), Most of the students (73 %) thought that bullying is a disease and needs treatment, the association was significant, (P- Value = 0.01). Highest percent of the students felt distressed (45%) in situations which remind them of the bullying, the association was significant, (P- Value = 0.01). Conclusions: More than one third of the students got bullied and more than half of them answered correctly regarding knowledge questions about bullying, most of them thought that females are exposed to bullying more than males and did not take a part in bullying anyone, Key words: Bullying, Universities students, Sulaimani City.

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