High Prevalence of Self-reported Experience of Violence among School-going Adolescents in Bhutan: A Secondary Analysis of Nationally Representative Global School-based Student Healt

Although Bhutan has recently advanced beyond response to preventive services for violence against women and children, there is limited data on adolescent violence to inform policy and interventions, highlighting the need for studies like the 2016 Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS).

We have analyzed the Global School-based Student Health Survey-2016, Bhutan, to assess the burden and pattern of violence among school-going adolescents (13–17 years). Two-stage cluster sampling was done; fifty schools were selected based on probability proportional to enrollment size from where classes 7 to 11 were selected using systematic sampling.