[Violence exposures by school children in Brazil: results from the National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE)].
This article presents the main results of the National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE). A questionnaire was applied to a sample of 60,973 students of the 9th year of Junior high school in public and private schools of the Brazilian state capitals and the Federal District, between March and June 2009. The prevalence and confidence interval of 95% (CI 95%) of the violence situations involving adolescents were analyzed. The following situations were identified: lack of safety on the way home-school (6.4%; CI95%: 6.1%-6.8%) and at school (5.5%; CI95%: 5.2%-5.8%); involving fights with physical aggression (12.9%; CI95%: 12.4%-13.4%), with knife (6.1%; CI95%: 5.7%-6.4%) or fire arm (4.0%; CI95%: 3.7%-4.3%); physical aggression by family member (9.5%; CI95%: 9.1%-9.9%). Violence situations were more prevalent among male students. There were great variations among the cities studied. Adolescents are exposed to different violence manifestations in the institutions that supposedly must assure their protection and healthy development: school and the home. These results aim to support health promotion measures and prevention of these risk factors.
Coordenação Geral de Vigilância de Doenças e Agravos Não Transmissíveis, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Ministério da Saúde, Brasília, DF. deborah.malta@saude.gov.br
Deborah Carvalho
DC
Malta
Edinilsa Ramos de
ER
Souza
Marta Maria Alves da
MM
Silva
Carlos dos Santos
Cdos S
Silva
Marco Antonio Ratzsch de
MA
Andreazzi
Claudio
C
Crespo
Márcio Dênis Medeiros
MD
Mascarenhas
Denise Lopes
DL
Porto
Alba Lucy Giraldo
AL
Figueroa
Otaliba Libânio de
OL
Morais Neto
Gerson de Oliveira
Gde O
Penna
D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*