tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Prevalence and associated factors of physical fighting among school-going adolescents in Namibia"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Prevalence and associated factors of physical fighting among school-going adolescents in Namibia. | BioMed Central Annals of General Psychiatry Primary research Open Access Prevalence and associated factors of physical fighting among school-going adolescents in Namibia Emmanuel Rudatsikira1 Seter Siziya2 Lawrence N Kazembe3 and Adamson S Muula 4 Address Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Global Health School of Public Health Loma Linda University Loma Linda CA USA 2Department of Community Medicine School of Medicine University of Zambia Lusaka Zambia 3Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Malawi Chancellor College Zomba Malawi and 4Department of Community Health College of Medicine University of Malawi Blantyre Malawi Email Emmanuel Rudatsikira - erudatsikira@ Seter Siziya - ssiziya@ Lawrence N Kazembe - lkazembe@ Adamson S Muula - muula@ Corresponding author Published 24 July 2007 Received 25 May 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007 6 18 doi 1744-859X-6-18 Accepted 24 July 2007 This article is available from http content 6 1 18 2007 Rudatsikira et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Interpersonal physical violence is an important global public health concern that has received limited attention in the developing world. There is in particular a paucity of data regarding physical violence and its socio-demographic correlates among in-school adolescents in Namibia. Methods We analysed cross-sectional data from the Namibia Global School-Based Health Survey GSHS conducted in 2004. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of physical fighting within the last 12 months. We obtained frequencies of sociodemographic attributes. We also assessed the association .