title: Bullying among High School Students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main aim of this research is to investigate the prevalence of bullying behaviour, its victims and the types of bullying and places of bullying among 14-17 year-old adolescents in a sample of school children in Bursa, Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional survey questionnaire was conducted among class 1 and class 2 high school students for identification bullying.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Majority (96.7%) of the students were involved in bullying behaviours as aggressors or victims. For a male student, the likelihood of being involved in violent behaviours was detected to be nearly 8.4 times higher when compared with a female student.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  a multidisciplinary approach involving affected children, their parents, school personnel, media, non-govermental organizations, and security units is required to achieve an effective approach for the prevention of violence targeting children in schools as victims and/or perpetrators.
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University, Medical Faculty, Department of Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Bursa Morgue Department, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Delia Nursel
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Türkmen
authors.affiliation: Uludağ University, Medical Faculty, Department of Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Bursa Morgue Department, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mihai Halis
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Dokgöz
authors.affiliation: Çanakkale 18 Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Biostatistics, Çanakkale, Turkey.
authors.forename: Suzana Semra
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Akgöz
authors.affiliation: Council of Forensic Medicine of Turkey, Bursa Morgue Department, Bursa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bogdan Nicolae Bülent
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.affiliation: Uludag University, Medical Faculty, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bursa,Turkey.
authors.forename: Horatiu Pınar
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Vural
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Social Studies Applied Unıt, Begun Violence Prevention and Research Center, Cleveland-Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Horatiu Oğuz
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Polat
keywords: bullying; school; violence