Bullying affects a large number of children and lays the groundwork for long-term risk for psychological, physical, and psychosomatic outcomes. Bullying is a common occurrence for schoolchildren worldwide. Bullying occurs in all countries, affecting from 9% to 54% of youth depending on the study. These rates vary across the world and UK. The large Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study from 2006 shows the worldwide prevalence of bullying among 13 year olds ranges from 8.6% to 45.2% among boys and from 4.8% to 35.8% among girls. The low rates were in Sweden with the highest percentages in Lithuania. For the UK, Wales showed 14% of boys having involvement in bullying and 13.7% of girls with England showing 16.5% in boys and 12.1% in girls. In the UK, over half of students say that bullying is a problem. The 2006 National Bullying Survey from the charity BullyingUK found 69% of children reported being bullied, 20% reported bullying others, and 85% had witnessed bullying. Due to the consequences of bullying and the ready access to children during healthcare visits, paediatric clinicians are in a unique position to identify and ameliorate these effects
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:02:06 +0000
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