Effect of Nursing Intervention for Hearing Impairment Adolescent Students Regarding Bullying

Background: Bullying victimization at school is an important concern in terms of social and mental health, particularly, for hearing impairment adolescent students who may be more vulnerable than hearing peers. Aim of the study was to evaluate effect of nursing intervention for hearing impairment adolescent students regarding bullying. Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: The current study was conducted at Al-Amal School for Mute and Deafness students at Benha City. Subjects: Purposive sample was used in this study, it includes 107 students, all of them were chosen from the mentioned setting. Tools of data collection: Five tools were used. I- A structured interviewing questionnaire; consisted of 2 parts to assess: 1) Demographic characteristics of hearing impairment adolescent students. 2) Questionnaire to assess student’s previous exposure to bullying II- knowledge of hearing impairment adolescent students regarding bullying. III- opinions about deaf community. IV- Self-esteem scale. V- Adolescent Bullying scale. Results: This study showed;20.5% of studied students have poor knowledge pre intervention decreases to 1.8% post intervention, while 12.3% of studied students have good knowledge pre intervention increases to 84.1% post intervention. 78.5% of studied students with low self-esteem pre intervention decreases to 19.6% post intervention. While14% of studied students with high self-esteem pre intervention increases to 85.9% post intervention.56.8% of studied students with negative opinion about deaf community pre intervention decreases to 22.4% post intervention. While 44.2% of studied students with positive opinion about deaf community pre intervention increases to 77.96% post intervention. Conclusion: This study concluded that: The nursing intervention had a significant effect on the improvement of the hearing impairment adolescent students' knowledge, opinion and self-esteem. Recommendations: Further studies should be provided to assess factors that increase bullying behavior. Community support should be provided to hearing impairment adolescent students.