tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among in-school adolescents in Beijing: results from the 2003 Beijing Global"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among in-school adolescents in Beijing: results from the 2003 Beijing Global . | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Prevalence and correlates of being bullied among in-school adolescents in Beijing results from the 2003 Beijing Global School-Based Health Survey Alice Hazemba1 Seter Siziya 1 Adamson S Muula2 and Emmanuel Rudatsikira3 Open Access Address Department of Community Medicine University of Zambia Medical School Lusaka Zambia 2Department of Community Health University of Malawi Blantyre Malawi and 3Departments of Global Health Biostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health Loma Linda University Loma Linda CA USA Email Alice Hazemba - alice_hazemba@ Seter Siziya - ssiziya@ Adamson S Muula - muula@ Emmanuel Rudatsikira - erudatsikira@ Corresponding author Published 2 April 2008 Received 20 August 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 6 doi 1744-859X-7-6 Accepted 2 April 2008 This article is available from http content 7 1 6 2008 Hazemba et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Bullying has public health importance. It has been reported that both the victims and perpetrators of bullying are more likely to have suicidal ideation and other suicidal behaviours. Moreover bullying can be a precursor for school violence and can contribute to poor academic performance. The purpose of the study was to raise awareness on the subject in China. We therefore conducted an analysis of secondary data to determine the prevalence and correlates of having been bullied among in-school adolescents. Methods The data was taken from the Beijing Global School-Based Health Survey conducted in 2003. A weighted analysis to reduce bias due to differing patterns of non-response .