Prevalence rates of drug use among school bullies and victims: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies

By S. Valdebenito, Maria M. Ttofi, Manuel Eisner. 2015

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Abstract Bullying is a common aggressive behaviour in school, with a number of cross-sectional studies showing that it exhibits a high comorbidity with other problem behaviours. The present study aims to estimate the comorbidity of school bullying (perpetration and victimisation) with drug use by incorporating and meta-analysing all available evidence on the cross-sectional association between the two variables. Meta-analytic results are based on a comprehensive systematic review across 20 databases and 46 journals. A total of 61 relevant manuscripts were included in the systematic review. Following explicit methodological criteria for the inclusion/exclusion of reports, 13 of them were eligible for the meta-analysis. The association of school bullying perpetration with drug use (adjusted odds ratio OR = 2.82; 95% CI 1.97–4.02; z = 5.71; p

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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