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Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: To examine recent trends in bullying and mental health problems among adolescents and the association between them. METHOD: A questionnaire measuring mental health problems, bullying at school, socio-economic status, and the school environment was distributed to all secondary school stude...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8672638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34906157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00425-y |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To examine recent trends in bullying and mental health problems among adolescents and the association between them. METHOD: A questionnaire measuring mental health problems, bullying at school, socio-economic status, and the school environment was distributed to all secondary school students aged 15 (school-year 9) and 18 (school-year 11) in Stockholm during 2014, 2018, and 2020 (n = 32,722). Associations between bullying and mental health problems were assessed using logistic regression analyses adjusting for relevant demographic, socio-economic, and school-related factors. RESULTS: The prevalence of bullying remained stable and was highest among girls in year 9; range = 4.9% to 16.9%. Mental health problems increased; range = + 1.2% (year 9 boys) to + 4.6% (year 11 girls) and were consistently higher among girls (17.2% in year 11, 2020). In adjusted models, having been bullied was detrimentally associated with mental health (OR = 2.57 [2.24–2.96]). Reports of mental health problems were four times higher among boys who had been bullied compared to those not bullied. The corresponding figure for girls was 2.4 times higher. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to bullying at school was associated with higher odds of mental health problems. Boys appear to be more vulnerable to the deleterious effects of bullying than girls. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13034-021-00425-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-86726382021-12-17 Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study Källmén, Håkan Hallgren, Mats Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research Article OBJECTIVE: To examine recent trends in bullying and mental health problems among adolescents and the association between them. METHOD: A questionnaire measuring mental health problems, bullying at school, socio-economic status, and the school environment was distributed to all secondary school students aged 15 (school-year 9) and 18 (school-year 11) in Stockholm during 2014, 2018, and 2020 (n = 32,722). Associations between bullying and mental health problems were assessed using logistic regression analyses adjusting for relevant demographic, socio-economic, and school-related factors. RESULTS: The prevalence of bullying remained stable and was highest among girls in year 9; range = 4.9% to 16.9%. Mental health problems increased; range = + 1.2% (year 9 boys) to + 4.6% (year 11 girls) and were consistently higher among girls (17.2% in year 11, 2020). In adjusted models, having been bullied was detrimentally associated with mental health (OR = 2.57 [2.24–2.96]). Reports of mental health problems were four times higher among boys who had been bullied compared to those not bullied. The corresponding figure for girls was 2.4 times higher. CONCLUSIONS: Exposure to bullying at school was associated with higher odds of mental health problems. Boys appear to be more vulnerable to the deleterious effects of bullying than girls. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13034-021-00425-y. BioMed Central 2021-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8672638/ /pubmed/34906157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00425-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Källmén, Håkan Hallgren, Mats Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title | Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title_full | Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title_short | Bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
title_sort | bullying at school and mental health problems among adolescents: a repeated cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8672638/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34906157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00425-y |
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