@article{ref1,
title="Effects of sexual orientation-based bullying on feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students",
journal="Jornal de Pediatria",
year="2020",
author="Jomar, Rafael Tavares and Fonseca, Vitor Augusto de Oliveira and Ramos, Dandara de Oliveira",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the extent to which sexual orientation-based bullying relates to self-reported feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students. <br><br>METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study using data from the 2015 PeNSE (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar), a survey designed to monitor the health of children and adolescents enrolled in the ninth grade in public and private Brazilian schools. Multiple linear regressions stratified by sex were used on a sample of 101,646 students, considering as reference students who had not experienced bullying, as well as students who had experienced other causes of bullying; a significance level of p<0.05 was accepted. <br><br>RESULTS: When the reference group was composed of students who had not experienced bullying, the associations between sexual orientation-based bullying and feelings of loneliness and between sexual orientation-based bullying and sleeping difficulty were positive (p<0.05) for both male and female students, with magnitudes about twice as large as those found among those who reported having experienced other cause s of bullying. However, when the reference group was composed of students who had experienced other causes of bullying, only the association between sexual orientation-based bullying and feelings of loneliness was positive (p<0.05) for both male and female students. <br><br>CONCLUSION: This study highlights that sexual orientation-based bullying is a predictor of feelings of loneliness.<br><br>Copyright © 2020 Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-7557",
doi="10.1016/j.jped.2020.03.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jped.2020.03.005"
}