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

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Multiple Poisson regression assessing selected behaviors according to bullying-related items at age 15

	Cigarette smoking at age 15		Alcohol drinking at age 15		Ever had sexual relations by age 15
Have other young people …	Relative risk	95% CI	Relative risk	95% CI	Relative risk	95% CI
Tried to get you into trouble with your friends	1.54^*	1.05–2.25	1.86^*	1.51–2.31	1.69^*	1.25–2.30
Punched, kicked or beat you up	1.98^*	1.21–3.25	1.25	0.86–1.83	1.79^*	1.17–2.75
Gender (M vs. F)	2.58^*	1.73–3.84	1.05	0.85–1.29	1.80^*	1.32–2.45

*p < 0.05.
Notes: The two bullying-related items were categorized as 2+ times vs. none/one time. The relative risks were simultaneously estimated, with all three variables in each model.

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