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Peer victimization as reported by children, teachers, and parents in relation to children's health symptoms

BACKGROUND: Victims of bullying in school may experience health problems later in life. We have assessed the prevalence of children's health symptoms according to whether peer victimization was reported by the children, by their teachers, or by their parents. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study...

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Autores principales: Løhre, Audhild, Lydersen, Stian, Paulsen, Bård, Mæhle, Magne, Vatten, Lars J
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-278
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author Løhre, Audhild
Lydersen, Stian
Paulsen, Bård
Mæhle, Magne
Vatten, Lars J
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Lydersen, Stian
Paulsen, Bård
Mæhle, Magne
Vatten, Lars J
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description BACKGROUND: Victims of bullying in school may experience health problems later in life. We have assessed the prevalence of children's health symptoms according to whether peer victimization was reported by the children, by their teachers, or by their parents. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study of 419 children in grades 1-10 the frequency of peer victimization was reported by children, teachers and parents. Emotional and somatic symptoms (sadness, anxiety, stomach ache, and headache) were reported by the children. Frequencies of victimization reported by different informants were compared by the marginal homogeneity test for paired ordinal data, concordance between informants by cross-tables and Spearman's rho, and associations of victimization with health symptoms were estimated by logistic regression. RESULTS: The concordance of peer victimization reported by children, teachers, and parents varied from complete agreement to complete discordance also for the highest frequency (weekly/daily) of victimization. Children's self-reported frequency of victimization was strongly and positively associated with their reports of emotional and somatic symptoms. Frequency of victimization reported by teachers or parents showed similar but weaker associations with the children's health symptoms. CONCLUSION: The agreement between children and significant adults in reporting peer victimization was low to moderate, and the associations of reported victimization with the children's self-reported health symptoms varied substantially between informants. It may be useful to assess prospectively the effects of employing different sources of information related to peer victimization.
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spelling pubmed-31158572011-06-16 Peer victimization as reported by children, teachers, and parents in relation to children's health symptoms Løhre, Audhild Lydersen, Stian Paulsen, Bård Mæhle, Magne Vatten, Lars J BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Victims of bullying in school may experience health problems later in life. We have assessed the prevalence of children's health symptoms according to whether peer victimization was reported by the children, by their teachers, or by their parents. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study of 419 children in grades 1-10 the frequency of peer victimization was reported by children, teachers and parents. Emotional and somatic symptoms (sadness, anxiety, stomach ache, and headache) were reported by the children. Frequencies of victimization reported by different informants were compared by the marginal homogeneity test for paired ordinal data, concordance between informants by cross-tables and Spearman's rho, and associations of victimization with health symptoms were estimated by logistic regression. RESULTS: The concordance of peer victimization reported by children, teachers, and parents varied from complete agreement to complete discordance also for the highest frequency (weekly/daily) of victimization. Children's self-reported frequency of victimization was strongly and positively associated with their reports of emotional and somatic symptoms. Frequency of victimization reported by teachers or parents showed similar but weaker associations with the children's health symptoms. CONCLUSION: The agreement between children and significant adults in reporting peer victimization was low to moderate, and the associations of reported victimization with the children's self-reported health symptoms varied substantially between informants. It may be useful to assess prospectively the effects of employing different sources of information related to peer victimization. BioMed Central 2011-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3115857/ /pubmed/21548913 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-278 Text en Copyright ©2011 Løhre et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Peer victimization as reported by children, teachers, and parents in relation to children's health symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-278
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