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Abstract
Students bullying is surely not a new concept. As a result of high prevalence rates and the short- and long-term consequences of bullying, it is demanding more attention (Hussien et al., 2022). Medical students were subjected to many factors during their study either academic or clinical that showed them suffering high levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. Recently, bullying is considered one of these factors(Rashad et al., 2023).
The present study was carried out to assess bullying behavior, coping strategies, and their relation to nurse interns’ self-esteem and answered the research question was examined Is there a relationship between bullying behaviors, coping strategies, and self-esteem among nurse interns?
A descriptive correlational design was used to carry out this study. It was carried out at four Ain-Shams University Hospitals where nurse interns are having their training, namely, Ain-Shams University Hospital, El-Demerdash Hospital, Pediatrics Hospital, and Cardiovascular-surgies Hospital. The subjects of this study included the nurse interns enrolled in the internship year, who are spending their training in Ain-Shams University Hospitals (2022-2023). The subjects included 123 out of (179) nurse interns during the academic year (2022-2023). The data collection tool was used to carry out this study, namely, nurse interns bullying behaviour questionnaire, coping strategies questionnaire, and self-esteem Scale.
The present study revealed the following main results:
• The result showed that the highest bullying behaviours experienced by 64% of nurse interns related to items (my efforts were undervalued), in addition, 47% related to items (I was treated with hostility, and I was told negative remarks about becoming a nurse). While the lowest bullying behaviours experienced by only 3% of nurse interns related to item (I was treated on the ground of disability) and 7% of them related to item (I was treated on the ground of race).
• The result showed that most of them (91.8%) not leaving the nursing program because of having experienced bullying behaviours. on the other hand, more than half of them 57% reported that they told someone about their experiences of bullying behaviours, while less than of them 43% reported that they told no one.
• The result showed that nurse interns who reported that they told someone of their bullying experiences, demonstrators (42.8%), classmates (28.4%), faculty members (18.5%), staff nurses (10.2%), and no one of them told the hospital manager of their bullying experiences. On the other hand, (47%) of the nurse interns did not tell anyone because that was not worth the effort, and (30.2%) of them did not tell anyone because of fear of poor evaluation. Meanwhile, (4) % of them did not tell anyone because of that It is behaviour that I just have to put up with.
• The result showed that staff nurses (52%) were identified as the greatest source of bullying behaviors, followed by physicians (21%). Closely reported were patients and their families, demonstrators, and classmate accounting for (10%, 7%, and 6%) respectively of the bullying behavior reported by nurse interns.
• The result showed that less than a tenth (13%) of studied nurse interns always used coping strategies to cope with bullying behaviors that experienced in nursing training, and more than a tenth (19%) of them sometimes used coping strategies to cope with bullying behaviors that experienced in nursing training. Meanwhile, more than two thirds (68%) of them never used any coping strategies to cope with bullying behaviors experienced in nursing training.
• There were positive statistically significant correlations between bullying behavior, and coping strategies and negative statistically significant correlations between bullying behavior and self-esteem.
• There was a statistically significant relation between studied nurse interns ‘self-esteem and their gender.