Summary of: school bullying and traumatic dental injuries in East London adolescents

Ruth Freeman

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    Abstract

    Aim To explore the association between school bullying and traumatic dental injuries (TDI) among 15-16-year-old school children from East London.

    Design Data from phase III of the Research with East London Adolescents Community Health Survey (RELACHS), a school-based prospective study of a representative sample of adolescents, were analysed. Adolescents provided information on demographic characteristics, socioeconomic measures and frequency of bullying in school through self-administered questionnaires and were clinically examined for overjet, lip coverage and TDI. The association between school bullying and TDI was assessed using binary logistic regression models.

    Results The prevalence of TDI was 17%, while lifetime and current prevalence of bullying was 32% and 11%, respectively. The prevalence of TDI increased with a growing frequency of bullying; from 16% among adolescents who had never been bullied at school, to 21% among those who were bullied in the past but not this school term, to 22% for those who were bullied this school term. However, this association was not statistically significant either in crude or adjusted regression models.

    Conclusion There was no evidence of an association between frequency of school bullying and TDI in this sample of 15-16-year-old adolescents in East London.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)688-689
    Number of pages2
    JournalBritish Dental Journal
    Volume217
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2014

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Dentistry

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