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Bullying and subjective health among adolescents at schools in Latvia and Lithuania

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Objectives:

To investigate the prevalence of bullying among adolescents in Latvia and Lithuania and to study its association with self-rated health, health complaints, and life satisfaction.

Methods:

A total of 3417 students in Latvia and 5626 in Lithuania were surveyed using the Health Behaviour Study among School-aged Children 2001/2002 (HBSC) questionnaire and research protocol.

Results:

Being a victim, bully, or bully/victim was reported by 30.1% adolescents in Latvia and 52.3% in Lithuania with the highest proportion reporting being a victim. Bullying was associated with poor subjective health and low life satisfaction.

Conclusions:

The factors explaining the difference of bullying prevalence between both countries should be studied to develop effective anti-bullying interventions relevant to local conditions.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Riga Stradins university, Dzirciema street 16, 1007, Riga, Latvia

    Inese Gobina & Anita Villerusa

  2. Institute for Biomedical Research of Kaunas University of Medicine Lithuania, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Apolinaras Zaborskis

  3. State Agency “Public Health Agency”, Riga, Latvia

    Iveta Pudule

  4. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Ilze Kalnins

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  1. Inese Gobina
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Correspondence to Inese Gobina.

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Submitted: 09 May 2007; Revised: 04 April 2008; Accepted: 04 June 2008

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Gobina, I., Zaborskis, A., Pudule, I. et al. Bullying and subjective health among adolescents at schools in Latvia and Lithuania. Int J Public Health 53, 272–276 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-008-7041-1

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