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

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Bivariate analyses of selected behaviors according to child-specific items involving negative experiences with peers

	Cigarette smoking		Alcohol drinking		Sexual relations
Have other young people …	Relative risk^*	95% CI	Relative risk^*	95% CI	Relative risk^*	95% CI
Taken something without permission or stolen from you	0.81	0.54–1.20	1.22	0.98–1.51	1.19	0.88–1.62
Tried to get you into trouble with your friends	1.59^†	1.09–2.30	1.87^†	1.52–2.30	1.76^†	1.30–2.38
Made fun of you for some reason	1.15	0.74–1.77	1.45^†	1.14–1.85	1.55^†	1.12–2.15
Refused to talk to you or made other people not talk to you	1.05	0.66–1.69	1.40^†	1.09–1.79	1.64^†	1.18–2.30
Made you uncomfortable by staring at you for a long time	1.17	0.75–1.82	1.35^†	1.06–1.73	1.51^†	1.08–2.12
Tried to break or damage something of yours	0.93	0.55–1.59	1.19	0.88–1.61	1.34	0.90–1.98
Punched, kicked or beat you up	2.13^†	1.31–3.48	1.39	0.93–2.08	2.00^†	1.30–3.09
Hurt you physically in any other way	1.71^†	1.07–2.74	1.40^†	1.01–1.95	2.01^†	1.38–2.91

^*Each of the eight items was dichotomized as 2+ times vs. none/one time, adjusted for gender.
^†p < 0 · 05.

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