Many anti-bullying campaign we often find both orally and in writing in various kinds of mass media like TV, social media, and print media. Start a lot of people who moved to become activists campaign stop bullying. This is based because the bad effects of bullying itself.
Bullying is an attitude of torture or abuse by a person or group repeatedly so that victims feel intimidated. Types of bullying can be physical, such as hitting or verbal. Bullying can occur in any environment such as at school, at work, in the neighborhood, it can even happen in the virtual world. Recent research reveals bullying in children carries long-term adverse effects.
A recent study conducted in Finland, as quoted from Medscape, noted that victims of bullying in childhood is a risk factor for psychiatric disorders in adulthood, especially depression to be in need of treatment.
This study took a sample of children 8 years of age, they were asked whether being bullied or if they bullied other children, and if so asked also how often gets such treatment. Researchers then followed the participants of the study trip is to be seen apakkah required treatment of psychiatric disorders when the child reaches the age of 16-29 years of age. Follow-up of this study was completed by the end of 2009.
Hasil penelitian tersebut diungkapkan bahwa setelah menyesuaikan dengan jenis kelamin, faktor keluarga dan adanya gejala psikiatri pada usia 8 tahun, peneliti menemukan hubungan gangguan psikiatri yang hingga membutuhkan pengobatan dengan frekuensi sering mendapatkan bullying. Misalnya, peserta yang sering di-bully memiliki risiko hampir dua kali lipat terdiagnosis gangguan psikiatri termasuk psikosis, kecemasan, dan depresi pada saat dilakukan follow-up dibandingkan dengan peserta yang jarang di-bully atau jarang melakukan bully. Dibandingkan dengan kelompok acuan, individu yang terlibat dalam bullying dan mereka yang terkena intimidasi memiliki risiko lebih dari dua kali lipat terdiagnosis gangguan pada saat dilakukan follow-up. Gangguan psikiatri tersebut dapat berupa depresi, kecemasan, dan lainnya dan dapat mengganggu aktivitas.
Campaign stop bullying in children is not enough to overcome the above problems. Necessary role of parents, teachers, and communities to reduce or even eliminate the habit of bullying in children. A child should begin to be taught boundaries are included in joking and which has reached the stage of bullying. The role of all parties is necessary in view of the adverse effects of bullying both short-term and more complex is the long-term increases the risk of psychiatric disorders in adulthood that can be up to require treatment.
