Johnson Jedidah Olayinka, Anwagwa Suzanna, Kamara Francess Yaata
Department of Community Health and Clinical Sciences, Njala University, Bo, Sierra Leone.
BMC Nurs. 2024 Dec 23;23(1):948. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-02623-3.
Bullying can have profound negative effects on nursing students who often contend with psychological trauma because of repeated acts of mistreatment. This study was done to explore the effects of bullying behaviours among nursing students with above average and below average academic performance in two nursing schools in Sierra Leone.
A qualitative exploratory study involved six rounds of data collection and analysis over a one month period. 48 nursing students recruited from Njala University School of Nursing and Mattru School of Nursing participated in semi structured interviews. Recruitment was done using a purposive sampling method and students with higher than average and lower than average Grade point average (GPA) were selected to participate in the interviews. Interviews were audiotaped recorded and transcribed verbatim for analysis. An inductive approach with line-by-line coding to identify themes and subthemes was done for the first set of interviews, following this the researchers took a deductive approach to analysis to evaluate if subsequent themes were consistent with initial analysis.
Sensitization and apathy were the two broad themes regarding the effects of bullying behaviour demonstrated by students with higher than average and lower than average GPA respectively. Both groups of students had come to accept the inevitability of bullying as nursing students despite the distress it caused them. However, students with lower-than-average GPA also demonstrated resentment and a loss of interest in their studies because of the bullying they had encountered.
The findings of this study demonstrate that bullying negative affects nursing students regardless of their academic performance. There is an urgent need for policy makers to prioritise the deterrence of bullying of nursing students through implementation of strategies that protect students and punish perpetrators of abuse in nursing schools nationwide.
欺凌行为会对护理专业学生产生深远的负面影响,他们常常因反复遭受虐待行为而承受心理创伤。本研究旨在探讨在塞拉利昂两所护理学校中,学业成绩高于平均水平和低于平均水平的护理专业学生中欺凌行为的影响。
一项定性探索性研究在一个月的时间内进行了六轮数据收集和分析。从恩贾拉大学护理学院和马特鲁护理学院招募的48名护理专业学生参加了半结构化访谈。采用目的抽样法进行招募,选择平均绩点(GPA)高于平均水平和低于平均水平的学生参加访谈。访谈进行录音并逐字转录以供分析。对第一组访谈采用逐行编码的归纳法来识别主题和子主题,在此之后,研究人员采用演绎法进行分析,以评估后续主题是否与初始分析一致。
对于欺凌行为的影响,敏感化和冷漠分别是平均绩点高于平均水平和低于平均水平的学生所表现出的两个广泛主题。尽管欺凌行为给两组学生都带来了困扰,但他们都已接受作为护理专业学生欺凌行为不可避免这一现实。然而,平均绩点低于平均水平的学生也因所遭受的欺凌而表现出怨恨和对学习失去兴趣。
本研究结果表明,无论学业成绩如何,欺凌行为都会对护理专业学生产生负面影响。政策制定者迫切需要优先通过实施保护学生和惩罚全国护理学校虐待行为实施者的策略,来威慑对护理专业学生的欺凌行为。