TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Participation in bullying and associated health characteristics, risk factors and leisure activities: a profile of school-age children in serbia
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Santric-Milicevic, Milena
A1  - Stevanovic, Aleksandar
A1  - Popovac, Nevena
A1  - Milanovic, Filip
A1  - Dedovic, Suncica
A1  - Zdravkovic, Marija
A1  - Bjelica, Nenad
A1  - Tomasevic, Ratko
A1  - Todorović, Jovana
A1  - Terzic-Supic, Zorica
A1  - Obradovic-Tomasevic, Biljana
A1  - Milovanovic, Vladimir
A1  - Radosavljevic, Natasa
A1  - Nikolic, Dejan
SP  - e9159
EP  - e9159
VL  - 19
IS  - 15
N2  - The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence and association of school-age children's participation in bullying, focusing on their health characteristics, risk factors, and leisure activities. We performed a secondary analysis of the original data of the 2017 HBSC study to examine participation in bullying once and multiple times among school-age children in Serbia. For this purpose, a nationally representative sample of 3267 children from 64 primary and high schools in the Republic of Serbia was evaluated. The outcome variable of interest in our study was participation in bullying. Further groups of individual variables such as health characteristics, risk factors, and leisure activities were assessed. Multivariate regression analysis indicated that children who felt everyday stomach pain, irritability or bad mood, and nervousness were more likely to participate in bullying at least once compared with those who rarely or never had such symptoms by 1.46, 1.58, and 1.58 times, respectively. School-age children who reported being drunk two to three times, and four or more times in life were more likely to participate in bullying than those who reported never being drunk by 1.53 and 1.74 times, respectively. Children who reported to watch TV or other media for five or more hours per day were 2.34 times more likely to be involved in bullying at least once. Multiple regression analysis showed that students with daily stomach pain, back pain, nervousness, and dizziness were more likely to be involved in multiple bullying by 1.16, 1.62, 1.82, and 1.70 times, respectively. Students who had nightly meetings or reported being drunk four or more times in the last 30 days were more likely to be involved in multiple bullying by 2.54 and 3.47, respectively. Students who reported playing games five or more times per day were 2.70 times more likely to be involved in this multiple bullying. This study highlights the importance of professional and family education programmes for early identification of specific health symptoms in the pediatric population, as well as integration with interventions aimed at reducing alcohol abuse among school-age children.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159159
ID  - ref1
ER  -