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Association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among school going children and adolescents

OBJECTIVES: We examined the association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents in rural Pakistan. A total of 452 school-going children in Nawabshah, Pakistan were conveniently interviewed to assess rates of bullying experiences an...

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Autores principales: Naveed, Sadiq, Waqas, Ahmed, Aedma, Kapil Kiran, Afzaal, Tayyaba, Majeed, Muhammad Hassan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30940177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4236-x
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author Naveed, Sadiq
Waqas, Ahmed
Aedma, Kapil Kiran
Afzaal, Tayyaba
Majeed, Muhammad Hassan
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description OBJECTIVES: We examined the association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents in rural Pakistan. A total of 452 school-going children in Nawabshah, Pakistan were conveniently interviewed to assess rates of bullying experiences and severity of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents. RESULTS: Experience of victimization was reported by 130 (28.8%) and perpetration by (146, 32.3%). A total of 162 (35.80%) reported mild depressive symptoms, 88 (19.50%) moderate, 33 (7.30%) moderately severe and 19 (4.20%) severe depressive symptoms. Age was not associated with patterns of bullying other than pure bully perpetration (.12, P = .024). Both victims and perpetrators of bullying experienced adverse emotional and social consequences. Bully-perpetrators exhibited the greater severity of depressive symptoms due to distress in psychosocial functioning. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4236-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-64448702019-04-12 Association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among school going children and adolescents Naveed, Sadiq Waqas, Ahmed Aedma, Kapil Kiran Afzaal, Tayyaba Majeed, Muhammad Hassan BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: We examined the association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents in rural Pakistan. A total of 452 school-going children in Nawabshah, Pakistan were conveniently interviewed to assess rates of bullying experiences and severity of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire for Adolescents. RESULTS: Experience of victimization was reported by 130 (28.8%) and perpetration by (146, 32.3%). A total of 162 (35.80%) reported mild depressive symptoms, 88 (19.50%) moderate, 33 (7.30%) moderately severe and 19 (4.20%) severe depressive symptoms. Age was not associated with patterns of bullying other than pure bully perpetration (.12, P = .024). Both victims and perpetrators of bullying experienced adverse emotional and social consequences. Bully-perpetrators exhibited the greater severity of depressive symptoms due to distress in psychosocial functioning. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4236-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6444870/ /pubmed/30940177 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4236-x Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Waqas, Ahmed
Aedma, Kapil Kiran
Afzaal, Tayyaba
Majeed, Muhammad Hassan
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title_short Association of bullying experiences with depressive symptoms and psychosocial functioning among school going children and adolescents
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30940177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4236-x
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