TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - School bullying and traumatic dental injuries in East London adolescents
JO  - British dental journal
A1  - Agel, M.
A1  - Marcenes, W.
A1  - Stansfeld, S. A.
A1  - Bernabé, E.
SP  - E26
EP  - E26
VL  - 217
IS  - 12
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-0610
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.1123
ID  - ref1
ER  -