, vol. 16, issue 2, pp. 179-190, 2013.
Almost all children in Africa are exposed to some form of physical, sexual and psychological abuse
at home, at school and in the community. The aim of this research was to assess types of violence among
primary school children at Cairo Governorate. A descriptive correlational design was adopted in this study.
Three schools (two governmental and one experimental school) were selected randomly from south Cairo
educational directorate. A samples of 216 students from 5th and 6th grade at the three schools were included
in the study. Two tools were used to collect data pertinent to the study: 1) Structured interviewing
questionnaire sheet to collect data about socio-demographic characteristics of the students as age, sex, gender,
parental education, etc… 2) Violence assessment tool: it had 4 parts; a. School related violence, b. Physical
abuse of students by their parents, c. Emotional abuse and negligence and d. Sexual abuse. Results revealed
that, the most frequent type of violence was school-related violence, followed by physical abuse of students
by their parents and the least type of violence found was emotional abuse. Regarding sexual abuse, it was
found that (30%) of the students are exposed to some form of sexual abuse. A highly statistically significant
difference was found between student’s age and exposure to emotional and sexual abuse as well as school
related violence. A statistically significant difference was found between number of family members and
exposure to physical abuse by parents. Conclusion: It was obvious from the results that violence and child
abuse is a significant public health problem among the studied sample. Students were exposed to different
forms of violence at schools and also in their homes.