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The impact of loneliness on self-rated health symptoms among victimized school children

Løhre, Audhild
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2356227
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2012
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2012, 6(20)   10.1186/1753-2000-6-20
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Background: Loneliness is associated with peer victimization, and the two adverse experiences are both related to

ill health in childhood and adolescence. There is, however, a lack of knowledge on the importance of loneliness

among victimized children. Therefore, possible modifying effects of loneliness on victimized school children’s selfrated

health were assessed.

Methods: A population based cross-section study included 419 children in grades 1–10 from five schools. The

prevalence of loneliness and victimization across grades was analyzed by linear test for trend, and associations of

the adverse experiences with four health symptoms (sadness, anxiety, stomach ache, and headache) were

estimated by logistic regression.

Results: In crude regression analysis, both victimization and loneliness showed positive associations with all the

four health symptoms. However, in multivariable analysis, the associations of victimization with health symptoms

were fully attenuated except for headache. In contrast, loneliness retained about the same strength of associations

in the multivariable analysis as in the crude analysis. More detailed analyses demonstrated that children who

reported both victimization and loneliness had three to seven times higher prevalence of health symptoms

compared to children who reported neither victimization nor loneliness (the reference group). Rather surprisingly,

victimized children who reported no loneliness did not have any higher prevalence of health symptoms than the

reference group, whereas lonely children without experiences of victimization had almost the same prevalence of

health symptoms (except for stomach ache) as children who were both victimized and lonely.

Conclusions: Adverse effects of loneliness need to be highlighted, and for victimized children, experiences of

loneliness may be an especially harsh risk factor related to ill health.
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BioMed Central
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

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