@article{ref1,
title="School bullying and traumatic dental injuries in East London adolescents",
journal="British dental journal",
year="2014",
author="Agel, M. and Marcenes, W. and Stansfeld, S. A. and Bernabé, E.",
volume="217",
number="12",
pages="E26-E26",
abstract="Aim To explore the association between school bullying and traumatic dental injuries (TDI) among 15-16-year-old school children from East London.Design Data from phase III of the Research with East London Adolescents Community Health Survey (RELACHS), a school-based prospective study of a representative sample of adolescents, were analysed. Adolescents provided information on demographic characteristics, socioeconomic measures and frequency of bullying in school through self-administered questionnaires and were clinically examined for overjet, lip coverage and TDI. The association between school bullying and TDI was assessed using binary logistic regression models.<br><br>RESULTS The prevalence of TDI was 17%, while lifetime and current prevalence of bullying was 32% and 11%, respectively. The prevalence of TDI increased with a growing frequency of bullying; from 16% among adolescents who had never been bullied at school, to 21% among those who were bullied in the past but not this school term, to 22% for those who were bullied this school term. However, this association was not statistically significant either in crude or adjusted regression models.<br><br>CONCLUSION There was no evidence of an association between frequency of school bullying and TDI in this sample of 15-16-year-old adolescents in East London.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-0610",
doi="10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.1123",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.1123"
}