Prevalence and associated factors of campus bullying of primary and secondary school students in Haidian District of Beijing / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand the prevalence and associated factors of school bullying among primary and secondary school students in Haidian District, and to provide scientific basis for intervention plan.@*Methods@#From September to October 2021, 1 906 primary and secondary school students in Haidian District were selected by stratified cluster random sampling for electronic questionnaire survey,an electronic questionnaire survey was conducted on students by using the questionnaire of the Student Health Status and Influencing Factors Questionnaire.@*Results@#The prevalence of campus bullying among primary and secondary school students in Haidian District was 4.3%, of which primary school (7.6%) > junior middle school (4.1%) > vocational high school (2.5%) > senior high school (1.9%) ( χ 2=23.49, P ＜0.01), boys (5.5%) were more than girls (3.0%) ( χ 2=7.44, P ＜ 0.01 ), students from abnormal families (6.9%) were higher than students from normal families (3.9%) ( χ 2=4.24, P =0.04). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that students in primary school had a higher risk of being bullied in school ( OR =2.13). Abnormal family ( OR = 1.07 ), smoking experience ( OR =2.28), experience of being beaten and scolded by parents( OR =2.49) and fighting behavior ( OR =1.84) were positively correlated with school bullying ( P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#Campus bullying is prevalent in primary and secondary schools in Haidian District, which warrents further attention of schools and education departments. Family school partnership and targeted prevention and intervention measures for key populations are expected.