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Peer-led intervention campaign against school bullying: who considered it useful, who benefited? (Updated)

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What data were collected?

Pre-intervention information was gathered three days before the campaign and post-intervention data were gathered five weeks later by the use of questionnaires. The students were first given advice about what constituted bullying and the various forms that bullying could take. They were then asked to:

  • identify anyone (including themselves) who they considered was being bullied;
  • evaluate the extent to which they had witnessed different types of bullying, such as "physical bullying" or "verbal bullying";
  • explain their own attitudes to bullying; and, post-intervention,
  • evaluate the campaign.

There were twelve participating classes involving 196 children. To increase the reliability of the results only data from the 144 students who were present at both times of data collection were included.