In an Australian study, 61 per cent of young non-heterosexual people reported experiencing verbal abuse and 18 per
cent reported physical abuse.
Not exact matches
A
report by the Mohave County medical examiner's office concluded both the young men suffered burns to 100 per
cent of their body, meaning neither was «identifiable by
physical features».
Almost four in ten (38 per
cent)
reported physical violence, a quarter (25 per
cent)
reported rape, and three in ten (30 per
cent) said their clients had been violent towards them.
The same
report also found that 85 per
cent of incarcerated women said they had a history of
physical abuse.
Violence was also common with 21 per
cent of gay men and 14 per
cent of lesbians
reporting physical assaults and 26 per
cent of gay men and 18 per
cent of lesbians
reporting threats of harm.
In contrast, seven per
cent of those without dyslexia
reported that they had experienced childhood
physical abuse.
Just over half of pathological gamblers, 45 per
cent of problem gamblers, and 28 per
cent of «casual gamblers»
reported some form of
physical fight in the past five years.
It's little wonder that a new Department for Education (DfE)
report finds that a staggering 95 per
cent of schools said that the Premium has had a positive impact on the
physical fitness of students, as well as improving the skills and behaviour of pupils.
Incidents of
physical attacks were far more prevalent in primary schools with 48 per
cent of staff
reporting pupils being physically aggressive, compared with 20 per
cent working at secondary level.
Moreover, a 2014 Public Health England
report found that the amount of moderate to vigorous
physical activity students engaged with at 11 years of age had an effect on academic performance across English, maths and science, including final GCSE exam results, with active students found to achieve up to 20 per
cent higher results than non ‑ active students.
More than 70 per
cent of Australia's children and 91 per
cent of young people are not meeting the national
physical activity recommendation of 60 minutes
physical activity every day, according to a 2016
report by the AHPC.
Indeed, the
report claims that differences in the
physical characteristics of classrooms explain 16 per
cent of the variation in learning progress over a year for the 3,766 pupils included in the study.
Children also move more when schools improve their outside space — 68.5 per
cent said schools
report an increase in children's
physical activity following outdoor improvements.
Earlier this year a survey of 860 educators conducted by the Herald Sun newspaper found that 55 per
cent of Victorian teachers want extra CCTV cameras in schools to assist in responding to the growing
reports of
physical violence, verbal threats and vandalism.
Children move more when schools improve their outside space — 68.5 per
cent said schools
report an increase in children's
physical activity following outdoor improvements.
«More than 96 per
cent of primary schools
reported the grant was having a positive impact on their pupil's
physical fitness, healthy lifestyle, skills and behaviour, with 87 per
cent of schools saying that the quality of PE teaching has increased since 2012/13.»
In 2005, the final
report of the Victorian Taskforce on Violence in Nursing referenced research that found as many as 95 per
cent of nurse respondents had experienced repeated episodes of aggression in the past year, with 80 per
cent reporting multiple episodes of
physical aggression.
Survey Results: 18,190 participants (90.1 per
cent)
reported having at least one chronic
physical health condition, while 1,493 (7.1 per
cent) experienced clinically significant depression (3.1 per
cent major depressive syndrome; 4.0 per
cent other depressive syndrome).