Studying the Rate of Physical and Emotional Abuse among Elementary School Students of Isfahan in 2014 and Its Relation with Some of the Cognitive Demographic Characteristics for Better Health Care.

Aim: Determining the rate of physical and emotional abuse among elementary school students of Isfahan and its relation with demographic characteristics Place and Duration of the Study: The study was conducted in 12 elementary school of Isfahan in central Iran from November to January of 2014. Methods: In this analytic descriptive study 500 elementary students from 12 elementary schools under supervision of The Education Department of Isfahan, central Iran, were participated. Samples were selected through multi-step random sampling. Data was gathered using a researcher made questionnaire about some individual and family characteristics and physical and emotional abuse from January to November 2014. Data was analyzed using SPSS software and by appropriate analytic descriptive statistics. Results: Results showed that “you were forced to stand in the corner of the class” among choices for physical abuse (mean = +1.87, -0.96) and “you were shout at” among choices for emotional abuse (mean = +1.80, -0.98) gained the highest mean scores. There was a significant relation between the age and sex of student and their fathers’ job with the rate of physical and emotional abuse. But mothers’ education only had a statistically significant relation with emotional abuse. There was no significant relation between fathers’ education and mothers’ job with the rate of physical and emotional abuse. Conclusions: Since physical and emotional abuse does exist among elementary school students, and it is more in boys rather than girls and in older students rather than younger students, careful planning, supervisory actions and necessary educations regarding this field are essential.

Health Care Strategies for Elementary Schools.

Aim: Every society uses a kind of strategy to provide health care for schools, so the aim of this study was to determine health care strategies for elementary schools. Study Design: This is a qualitative study that conducted content analysis. Place and Duration of the Study: This study was conducted in Isfahan, Iran, during 2014. Methodology: This study was conducted on health care providers of elementary schools. By targeted sampling 17 healths care providers from 22 elementary schools were selected. 20 semi-structured interviews were performed. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Three concepts of social contribution (with two sub-categories of responsibility toward peers and cooperation), family-oriented (with three sub-categories of school and family interaction, parents’ desperateness and transparency of information between teachers and parents) and holism (with four sub-categories of students’ health problems, multidimensionality of health, social skills and promoting spirituality). Conclusions: Using these approaches to provide health care for students could help to enhance the health of this group.