Victimization of Peruvian adolescents and health risk behaviors: young lives cohort

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Table 1 Bivariate analyses of bullying status at ages 8 and 15 according to current smoking, alcohol drinking, and having had sex at age 15

	Yes–Yes n = 85 (12.6%)	Yes–No n = 235 (34.8%)	No–Yes n = 61 (9.0%)	No–No n = 294 (43.6%)	Chi-square/P value	Relative risk^*	95% CI
Cigarette smoking
Yes	29.0	17.8	17.2	17.4	5.66	1.58^†	1.00–2.50
No	71.0	82.2	82.8	82.6	0.13	1.00
Alcohol drinking
Yes	48.0	33.8	29.3	38.0	6.62	1.57^†	1.04–2.38
No	52.0	66.2	70.7	62.0	0.09	1.00
Sexual relations
Yes	42.9^†	23.7^†	20.7^†	21.6^†	15.68	2.17^†	1.41–3.33
No	57.1	76.3	79.3	78.4	0.00	1.00

^*Yes–Yes vs. otherwise, adjusted for gender.
^†p < 0 · 05.
Notes: Incidence of caregiver report of child bullied at ages 8 and 15: Yes-Yes (bullied at age 8 and 15), Yes-No (bullied at age 8, but not 15), No-Yes (not bullied at age 8, but bullied at age 15), and No-No (not bullied at age 8 or 15).

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