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Effects of sexual orientation-based bullying on feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students^☆^ by Rafael Tavares Jomar; Vitor Augusto de Oliveira Fonseca; Dandara de Oliveira Ramos is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective To investigate the extent to which sexual orientation-based bullying relates to self-reported feelings of loneliness and sleeping difficulty among Brazilian middle school students. ## Method This is a cross-sectional study using data from the 2015 PeNSE (Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar), a survey designed to monitor the health of children and adolescents enrolled in the ninth grade in public and private Brazilian schools. Multiple linear regressions stratified by sex were used on a sample of 101,646 students, considering as reference students who had not experienced bullying, as well as students who had experienced other causes of bullying; a significance level of __p__ < 0.05 was accepted. ## Results When the reference group was composed of students who had not experienced bullying, the associations between sexual orientation-based bullying and feelings of loneliness and between sexual orientation-based bullying and sleeping difficulty were positive (__p__ < 0.05) for both male and female students, with magnitudes about twice as large as those found among those who reported having experienced other cause s of bullying. However, when the reference group was compo
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- Author
- Rafael Tavares Jomar; Vitor Augusto de Oliveira Fonseca; Dandara de Oliveira Ramos
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)