కమ్యూనిటీ & పబ్లిక్ హెల్త్ నర్సింగ్ జర్నల్

నైరూప్య

Faculty of Education Students' Perceptions of Violence

Canan Birimoglu Okuyan and Rabia Sohbet

Objective: This study is performed to determine the perspectives to violence of the newbie, Faculty of Education.
Methods: 1116 students of Gaziantep University, Faculty of Education included in this study. Six hundred and eighty of them (61.1%) included to the study without sample selection. The survey form was applied in April-May 2011.
Results: When the samples were analyzed; 57.6% of them were female, 46.5% of them were between 20-21 years old, 82,3% of students defined the violence as brute force and beating, 38.7 % of them defined as the most severe physical violence. 49.3% of the samples pointed out that women were exposed to violence. The students who thought that there was a great need to conduct seminars in their schools to increase the sensitivity against violence and stop the violence were 43.5% of samples and 57.4% of the students advised to educate families about children’s education to stop violence in family. There were statistically significant differences between source of violence and age groups (p<0.05).
Conclusion: A statistically significant relationship was found between the age groups, measures to be taken to prevent domestic violence, the place people refer to and the severity of the violence (p<0.05).