4. 1. 4 The effect of trauma on other students
Students were asked whether trauma has an effect on other
students who are not traumatized and table below indicates their responses.
Table 7: The effect of trauma on other students
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Responses
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Frequency
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Percentage
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a) Yes
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64
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86
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b) No
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|
11
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14
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Most of students agreed that a traumatized student affect
others and they said that the reasons may be due to the fact that trauma is
caused by many factors, and is a result of any experience that makes them feel
terrified, helplessness, lonely.
Table 8: Students' views about whether trauma
interrupts the teaching-learning process in their classrooms
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Responses
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Frequency
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Percentage
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a) Strongly agree
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8
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10
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b) Agree
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11
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14
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c) Uncertain
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25
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33
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d) Disagree
|
23
|
30
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e) Strongly disagree
|
|
10
|
13
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Source: Primary data
As indicated in the table, when asked weather trauma
interrupts the teaching-learning process in their classrooms, 10% of students
strongly agreed that trauma crisis interrupts their learning; 14% agreed, 33%
were uncertain, 20 disagreed and 13% strongly disagreed.. In addition, some
students said that when the trauma crisis takes place and courses are
interrupted, the teachers and counselor take care of the traumatized students
and advise other students to help them and to report cases that occur.
Also, students were asked to say how does trauma affect
students' learning in general in their school and most of them responded that
trauma cause the interruption of courses at their school in general for
traumatized students, it is very difficult for them to follow the courses
because of a big number of absenteeism in classes during courses time for
traumatized student and for their fellows who take care for them during that
period either in the dormitory or at the health center, and this may reduce the
student's performance in their exams at school level or at national level
during national examination.
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