Mustafa Mushtaq Hussain, Sadiq Naveed, Ahmed Waqas, Rehan Shamim, Faheem Ali.
Exposure to violence and its association with symptoms of aggression: a cross sectional study among medical students of Karachi, Pakistan..
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;69(5):654-8.

To explore the experience of violence and its association with symptoms of aggression among medical students. The cross-sectional study was conducted from January 5 to 14, 2018, at Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, and comprised medical students who were interviewed using a self-reporting questionnaire that had three sections: demographics, the Aggression Questionnaire, and the Exposure to Violence Scale. Data were analysed using SPSS 20.. Of the 192 subjects, 144(75%) were females and 48(25%) were males, with an overall mean age of 21.39+/- 2 years. Total exposure to violence was significantly higher among older male respondents (p<0.05). It was significantly associated with higher severity of physical aggression and hostility (p<0.05). However, it had no significant relationship with verbal aggression and anger (p>0.05).. A large proportion of medical students reported exposure to violent events, which was also associated with increased aggression among them.

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