(1484) EFFECTIVENESS OF OBPP AND SAVE PROGRAMS IN THE BULLYING REDUCTION AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF BUCARAMANGA, COLOMBIA

摘要

Nowadays there is a considerable growth in community concern about bullying evidence in schools, inmany countries (Olweus & Limber, 2010). Bullying is a prolonged and repetitive behavior of physical,verbal and psychological aggression of one or a few students to another(s) with the intention to causedamage, with significant physical and psychological consequences (Olweus, 1998), which havearoused the need to address and design intervention programs, including the mosts recognized,Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP), University of Bergen, Norway and Proyecto Sevilla Anti-Violencia Escolar (SAVE), University of Sevilla, Spain. The OBPP is a program of the United StatesDepartment of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration (SAMHSA). Some researchs shows it as the most evaluated program, with reductionsby 20 to 70 percent in student reports of being bullied and and bullying others (Olweus & Limber,2007). Authors such as Cecil and Molnar-Main (2014) found in a study that evaluated the fidelityimplementation of programmatic activities of OBPP between 2.020 teachers in 88 Pennsylvaniaschools that by performing the kick-off event to launch the program, and disseminate the rules tostudents, schools improved her life and showed that OBPP components are easier to make than otherprograms, because of its standardization. Also, Bowllan (2010) who conducted a study in an UnitedStates school, showed that after one year of implementing the OBPP was a decrease of 34,4 percenton reports of exclusion and 31,1 percent in bullying. For its part, SAVE, an open program, adjustableto the needs of schools, with fewer subsequent studies, shown in its original version a reduction in thepercentage of victims from 9 to 4 percent, as well as aggressors 0.7 to 0.3 percent. This, is possible toinfer an approximate effectiveness of 50 to 55 percent, while the qualitative results show a change isreported in social sensitivity and school from bullying, increasing the motivation of teachers toorganize activities that improve coexistence with methods like exploration, awareness, orderly,comprehensive and ecological intervention of the problem. In this sense, this study aims to determinethe effectiveness of OBPP and SAVE programs in reducing bullying in public schools ofBucaramanga, Colombia, through a descriptive study with a type of quasi-experimental pretest-postestdesign with two experimental groups and one control group. The sample consists of 1.383 studentsand 50 teachers from nine educational institutions intentionally selected: three in the experimentalgroup 1 (EG1), who advance the SAVE program; three on the experimental group 2 (EG2), whoadvance the OBPP program; and three in the control group (CG), receiving no program. The groupswere evaluated at the beginning of implementation and will be evaluated again at twelve months todetermine the programs' effect. According to the course of the research, at this time, is possible tohypothesize greater effectiveness of OBPP, due to its standardization, rules, consequences andinstructions thoroughly tested in contexts where it has been implemented, including Mexico, whosecontext sociocultural is comparable with the Colombian context.