Peer mistreatment and suicide attempt in adolescents that go to School
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Objective: To know the relationship between peer mistreatment (bullying) and suicide attempts for teenagers that go to school. Method: Appling a questionnaire to 723 adolescents that go to school, including Likert scales that evaluate difficulties at school (school performance and mistreatment), suicidal ideas and thoughts, feelings of loneliness and abandonment, isolation, previous suicide attempts. To estimate the strength of association between the difficulties at school and the variables under study the OR (odds ratio) statistic was used. And association is considered to exist when OR was superior to 1. Results: Difficulties at school were associated to the studied variables with statistical significance. Conclusions: Victimization experiences place the teenager at higher risk of suffering psychosocial imbalance.
Keywords: Peer mistreatment (bullying), difficulties at school, suicidal ideas and thoughts, suicide attempt, psychosocial imbalance.
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