Association of campus bullying and injury-related behavior with depres-sion symptoms among middle school students
Objective To investigate the factors affecting depression symptoms in middle school students and pro-vide novel insights for preventing and controlling students'depression with appropriate measures,the relationship of campus bullying and injury-related behaviors with depression symptoms were analyzed.Methods The 10 330 students from junior,senior and vocational high school(37 schools,11 counties)in Jining City were enrolled,with multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method.A questionnaire survey on injuries,campus bullying,and CES-D depression self-assessment was conducted.Multivariate Logistic regression model analysis was used to analyze the relationships of injuries and campus bullying with depression among middle school students.Results The 232(2.25％)students suffered campus bullying,8 257(79.93％)students had injury-related behaviors,and 1 292(12.51％)students suffered depression symptoms.Among them,52.16％of students being bullied and 32.65％of injured students had depression symptoms.After controlling for factors,such as gender,education level and household registration,a multi-variate logistic regression analysis was carried out.The re-sults showed that experiencing campus bullying(OR=7.43,95％CI:5.61-9.83),suffering serious injuries(OR=2.91,95％CI:2.18-3.88),fighting with others(OR=2.72,95％CI:2.21-3.34),and being scolded or beaten by parents(OR=4.58,95％CI:3.87-5.41)were all positively relationship with the prevalence of developing depression symptoms.Conclu-sions Suffering from campus bullying,injuries,and being scolded or beaten by parents are related to the risk of depression symptoms among middle school students.Preventing campus bullying and injury-related behavior are particularly important for reducing the incidence of adolescent depression symptoms.
Middle school studentCampus bullyingInjury-related behaviorDepressionRegression analysis
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