What have adolescents in Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil, done to reduce their community violence exposure?

This study aims to identify the individual community strategies to avoid violence exposure most used by adolescents from public and private schools in the IX Administrative Region of Rio de Janeiro and investigate the profile of co-occurrence and its prevalence in specific population subgroups. This is a cross-sectional study with 693 individuals. A multidimensional questionnaire collected information regarding strategies to avoid community violence exposure and was self-completed in the classroom. The most used strategies were avoiding walking close to armed people (55.5%), avoiding walking alone (30.5%), and avoiding returning home at dawn (24.7%). Girls adopt more of all (concurrently) the four limiting behaviors to reduce their community violence exposure (53% vs. 32%). Notably, the adoption of such strategies differed by socioeconomic indicators and was higher among adolescents from lower-income households. These findings point to the high frequency of use of such strategies by adolescents, which may hinder and limit the full development of their social and cultural skills.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

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Ciencia & saude coletiva - 29(2024), 1 vom: 31. Jan., Seite e18182022

Sprache:

Portugiesisch

Weiterer Titel:

O que os adolescentes do município do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, têm feito para reduzir sua exposição à violência comunitária?

Beteiligte Personen:

Marques, Emanuele Souza [VerfasserIn]
Reichenheim, Michael Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Santos, Érika Barbosa Dos [VerfasserIn]
Taquete, Stella R [VerfasserIn]
Moraes, Claudia Leite de [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 12.01.2024

Date Revised 12.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1590/1413-81232024291.18182022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366889303