Table 2. Bivariate analysis of bullying victimization across the background characteristics in Sierra Leone.
| Characteristics | Variables | Bullied |
X2, p-value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes n (%) | No n (%) | |||
| Age | ≤14yrs | 489(36.4) | 484(34.9) | 0.63, p = 0.583 |
| ≥15years | 859(63.6) | 948(65.1) | ||
| Sex | Male | 633(53.1) | 625(50.3) | 2.20, p = 0 .129 |
| Female | 691(46.9) | 793(49.7) | ||
| Grade | JSS | 902(72.9) | 873(68.6) | 6.19, p = 0 .338 |
| SSS | 446(27.1) | 554(31.4) | ||
| Alcohol use | Yes | 265(19.2) | 128(8.2) | 68.21, p<0.001 |
| No | 978(80.8) | 1246(98.1) | ||
| Cannabis use | Yes | 103(6.3) | 35(2.5) | 24.06, p = 0.002 |
| No | 1185(93.7) | 1361(97.5) | ||
| Loneliness | Less Lonely | 1008(77.0) | 1194(83.9) | 21.25,p = 0 .020 |
| Lonelier | 328(23.0) | 238(16.1) | ||
| Anxiety | Less or no anxiety | 1058(79.9) | 1206(83.0) | 4.54, p = 0.256 |
| Anxiety | 292(20.1) | 228(17.0) | ||
| Suicidal Ideation | Yes | 222(16.6) | 172(11.9) | 12.62, P = 0.213 |
| No | 1075(83.4) | 1225(88.1) | ||
| Suicidal plan | Yes | 229(16.2) | 224(15.7) | 0 .16, P = 0.862 |
| No | 1084(83.8) | 1198(84.3) | ||
| Suicidal attempt | Yes | 335(24.5) | 206(14.1) | 47.76, p<0.001 |
| No | 999(75.5) | 1220(85.9) | ||
| Close friends | No close friends | 130(9.9) | 119(8.6) | 1.26, p = 0.452 |
| Close friends | 1192(90.1) | 1290(91.4) | ||
| School truancy | Yes | 555(41.1) | 437(29.2) | 42.93, p<0.001 |
| No | 786(58.9) | 991(70.8) | ||
| Peer support | Yes | 393(28.2) | 461(31.0) | 2.69, p = 0.160 |
| No | 944(71.8) | 961(69.0) | ||
| Parental Support | Yes | 936(75.1) | 1077(78.4) | 4.05, p = 0.216 |
| No | 347(24.9) | 308(21.6) | ||