Relationship between polyvictimization and overweight among adolescents from São Paulo city, Brazil

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This study is to identify victimization patterns and analyze the association between the experience of polyvictimization and overweight or obesity among adolescent girls and boys. The sample consisted of 2680 Brazilian ninth-graders enrolled in public and private schools, taken from the São Paulo Project for the social development of children and adolescents (SP-PROSO). Victimization was explored in two ways: (i) as per Finkelhor and (ii) by latent class analysis (LCA). The interest outcomes were overweight and obesity. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to study the relationship between victimization and overweight or obesity, controlling for confounders. LCA grouped boys and girls adolescents into three classes. These classes received the same labels, but the patterns differed between sexes. Class 1 was characterized by fewer types of victimization suffered and lower endorsement values in the analyzed items and was named bullying and indirect victimization (♀: 42.7%, n = 546; ♂: 21.6%, n = 293). Class 2 included more victimization types than Class 1 and less than Class 3. This class was labeled family violence and peer victimization (♀: 29.1%, n = 356; ♂: 47.9%, n = 652). Class 3 was named high polyvictimization (♀: 28.2%, n = 345; ♂: 30.5%, n = 418). According to Finkelhor, polyvictimization was not associated with overweight or obesity in both sexes. Only the class of high polyvictimization was associated with being overweight (ORadj: 1.60, 95%CI: 1.01-2.54) in girls. In this study, polyvictimization was associated with being overweight only among adolescent girls. Longitudinal studies in different contexts and populations are needed to understand this relationship.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:170

Enthalten in:

Preventive medicine - 170(2023) vom: 15. Mai, Seite 107492

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Marques, Emanuele Souza [VerfasserIn]
Faus, Daniela Porto [VerfasserIn]
Levy, Renata Bertazzi [VerfasserIn]
Leite, Maria Alvim [VerfasserIn]
Eisner, Manuel P [VerfasserIn]
Peres, Maria Fernanda Tourinho [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent
Exposure to violence
Journal Article
Latent class analysis
Nutritional status
Overweight
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 14.04.2023

Date Revised 17.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107492

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355064855