Peer Abuse at a Boarding District School and the Effect of Awareness Training

The aim of this study was to determine the status of the peer abuse among the middle school students, at a boarding district school and to examine the effect of awareness training about peer abuse. in this research which was planned as a semi-experimental and pretest-posttest design study which was carried with 112 students in may 2008, the results obtained from are as follows: students stated that they felt bad emotionally themselves at the following areas; 24% of at the school, 26.8% of in the classroom, 19.6% of in the playground, 21.2 % of at the refectory, 27.3% of in the dormitory and 24.1% of on the way to school. they said that they had been abused physically by the other students several times in a week (24.1%), 46.4% of the students had been exposed to verbal-physical abuse in last one-year, and 44.2% of the students didn’t tell anyone about their victimization. peer abuse knowledge level scores of the students were pretest 44.7±22.0 and posttest 68.5±20.5. after the planned training, between the pretest and posttest points was found statistically a significant difference (p<0.05).