TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Effects of sexual orientation-based bullying on feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students
JO  - Jornal de Pediatria
A1  - Jomar, Rafael Tavares
A1  - Fonseca, Vitor Augusto de Oliveira
A1  - Ramos, Dandara de Oliveira
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0021-7557
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jped.2020.03.005
ID  - ref1
ER  -