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Meta-analysis of the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents

Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for physical and mental development; thus, they are high-risk periods for the occurrence of mental disorders. The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the association between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents....

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Autores principales: Ye, Zixiang, Wu, Dongmei, He, Xiaoyan, Ma, Qin, Peng, Jianyan, Mao, Guoju, Feng, Lanling, Tong, Yuhao
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36997959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04681-4
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author Ye, Zixiang
Wu, Dongmei
He, Xiaoyan
Ma, Qin
Peng, Jianyan
Mao, Guoju
Feng, Lanling
Tong, Yuhao
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Wu, Dongmei
He, Xiaoyan
Ma, Qin
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description Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for physical and mental development; thus, they are high-risk periods for the occurrence of mental disorders. The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the association between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. We searched the PubMed, MEDLINE and other databases to identify studies related to bullying behavior and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. A total of 31 studies were included, with a total sample size of 133,688 people. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the risk of depression in children and adolescents who were bullied was 2.77 times higher than that of those who were not bullied; the risk of depression in bullying individuals was 1.73 times higher than that in nonbullying individuals; and the risk of depression in individuals who bullied and experienced bullying was 3.19 times higher than that in nonbullying-bullied individuals. This study confirmed that depression in children and adolescents was significantly associated with being bullied, bullying, and bullying-bullied behavior. However, these findings are limited by the quantity and quality of the included studies and need to be confirmed by future studies.
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spelling pubmed-100617222023-03-31 Meta-analysis of the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents Ye, Zixiang Wu, Dongmei He, Xiaoyan Ma, Qin Peng, Jianyan Mao, Guoju Feng, Lanling Tong, Yuhao BMC Psychiatry Research Childhood and adolescence are critical periods for physical and mental development; thus, they are high-risk periods for the occurrence of mental disorders. The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the association between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. We searched the PubMed, MEDLINE and other databases to identify studies related to bullying behavior and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. A total of 31 studies were included, with a total sample size of 133,688 people. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the risk of depression in children and adolescents who were bullied was 2.77 times higher than that of those who were not bullied; the risk of depression in bullying individuals was 1.73 times higher than that in nonbullying individuals; and the risk of depression in individuals who bullied and experienced bullying was 3.19 times higher than that in nonbullying-bullied individuals. This study confirmed that depression in children and adolescents was significantly associated with being bullied, bullying, and bullying-bullied behavior. However, these findings are limited by the quantity and quality of the included studies and need to be confirmed by future studies. BioMed Central 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10061722/ /pubmed/36997959 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04681-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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He, Xiaoyan
Ma, Qin
Peng, Jianyan
Mao, Guoju
Feng, Lanling
Tong, Yuhao
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title_short Meta-analysis of the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents
title_sort meta-analysis of the relationship between bullying and depressive symptoms in children and adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36997959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04681-4
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