Fearing injury to themselves, nearly 12 per cent school children in south Delhi schools and colleges carry weapons with them to school, a study conducted here has claimed.
This finding is a result of the study conducted by the department of community medicine, Safdarjung Hospital, which conducted an in-depth analysis of the reasons for violent behaviours amongst school and college-going adolescents.
"A higher proportion of males (15.7 per cent) than females (3.9 per cent) were carrying a weapon since the past one year and involvement in violence was more amongst males than females," said Rahul Sharma, professor, department of community medicine at the hospital, who conducted the study.
According to the study, nearly 13.5 per cent had threatened or injured someone with a weapon in the past 12 months, a majority of them being males.
Almost one in two boys was found to be involved in a physical fight in past 12 months.
The choice of weapon included either a knife, a gun, a stick, a club, a hunter and a sword.
The study was conducted in three schools and two colleges in South Delhi and 550 adolescents aged between 14-19 years participated. Sharma was helped by Vijay Grover, Department of Community Medicine, MIMS, Ambala, in Haryana and Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of Community Medicine, UCMS & GTB Hospital.
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