Greco Ana M, Gómez Eva Pérez, Pereda Noemí, Guilera Georgina, González Iriana Santos
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Universidad de Cantabria, Cantabria, Spain.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 May;37(9-10):NP7242-NP7267. doi: 10.1177/0886260520969243. Epub 2020 Oct 27.
Schools are in a position to connect children and adolescents suspected of being victims of violence with an external source of support by making referrals to external agencies. However, several studies have identified obstacles that hinder early reporting among school staff members. Very few studies have applied a mixed-method approach to try to understand this sensitive issue. The current study used this approach to analyze to what extent the students suspected of being victimized match the ones reported by active school staff members in Spain ( = 453, 83.5% females, age: = 42.23, = 9.46). We classified the reasons given for not reporting the potential victimization cases encountered and made comparisons to determine whether there were differences in the level of knowledge, or in the sociodemographic characteristics, of respondents who gave different reasons for not reporting. Although 73.5% of school staff members had detected at least one potential case, 40.8% of them referred it to an external agency. The most common reasons for lack of reporting included deciding not to do so once concerns had been shared within the school and believing that one must be certain or that only serious violence should be reported. The findings of this study may help to further understand the decisions not to report certain suspicions of potential victimization cases to external agencies by school staff. There is an urgent need to raise awareness about the duty to report these concerns to external agencies, even in the absence of agreement from the school management team. Members of school staff need to be strongly encouraged to become familiar with the existing protocols.
学校能够通过向外部机构转介，将疑似暴力受害者的儿童和青少年与外部支持来源联系起来。然而，多项研究已经确定了阻碍学校工作人员早期报告的障碍。很少有研究采用混合方法来试图理解这个敏感问题。本研究采用这种方法来分析在西班牙，疑似受侵害的学生与积极的学校工作人员报告的学生在多大程度上相符（n = 453，83.5%为女性，年龄：M = 42.23，SD = 9.46）。我们对未报告所遇到的潜在受害案件的原因进行了分类，并进行比较，以确定给出不同未报告原因的受访者在知识水平或社会人口特征方面是否存在差异。尽管73.5%的学校工作人员至少发现了一起潜在案件，但其中40.8%的人将其转介给了外部机构。未报告的最常见原因包括在学校内部分享担忧后决定不报告，以及认为必须确定或只应报告严重暴力行为。本研究的结果可能有助于进一步理解学校工作人员不向外部机构报告某些潜在受害案件怀疑的决定。迫切需要提高人们对向外部机构报告这些担忧的责任的认识，即使没有得到学校管理团队的同意。需要大力鼓励学校工作人员熟悉现有的程序。
