Citation

Due P, Holstein BE, Lynch J, Diderichsen F, Gabhain SN, Scheidt P, Currie C. Eur. J. Public Health 2005.

Affiliation

Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/eurpub/cki105

PMID

15755782

Abstract

This school-based study examined the association between bullying and physical and psychological symptoms among adolescents in 28 countries. There is great variation in the prevalence of bullying across countries. Bullying shows consistent, strong and graded association with each of 12 different physical and pyschological symptoms in all countries. Effective bullying prevention is needed in many countries and may have important influence on lowering symptom-load among adolescents.