Personal, relational and school factors associated with involvement in fights with weapons among school-age youth in Brazil: a multilevel ecological approach

Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres (), Catarina Machado Azeredo, Leandro Fórnias Machado Rezende, Eliana Miura Zucchi, Ivan Franca-Junior, Olinda do Carmo Luiz and Renata Bertazzi Levy
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Maria Fernanda Tourinho Peres: Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Catarina Machado Azeredo: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Leandro Fórnias Machado Rezende: Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Eliana Miura Zucchi: Universidade Católica de Santos
Ivan Franca-Junior: School of Public Health-USP
Olinda do Carmo Luiz: Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Renata Bertazzi Levy: Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo

International Journal of Public Health, 2018, vol. 63, issue 8, No 9, 957-965

Abstract: Abstract Objectives To investigate the association between personal, relational and school factors with involvement in fights with weapon among Brazilian school-age youth. Methods Using data from the Adolescent School-Based Health Survey 2015 (n = 102.072), we conducted multilevel logistic regression models. Results IFW was associated with female sex (OR = 0.45), and with older age (OR = 1.15), previous involvement in physical violence (OR = 2.05), history of peer verbal (OR = 1.14) and domestic victimization (OR = 2.11), alcohol use (OR = 2.42) and drug use (OR = 3.23). The relational variables (e.g., parent’s supervision) were mostly negatively associated with IFW. At the school level, attending public school and attending schools in violent surroundings were both positively associated with IFW. The intraclass correlation coefficient estimated in the empty model showed that 5.77% of the variance of IFW was at school level. When all individual- and school-level variables were included in the model, the proportional changes in variance were 61.7 and 71.55%, respectively. Conclusions IFW is associated with personal, relational and school factors. Part of the variance in IFW by school is explained by characteristics of the school context.

Keywords: Violence; Youth violence; Multilevel models; Violence prevention; Risk factors; Ecological model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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