Table 1.
Sample characteristics among adolescents in Thailand, 2008.
| Total N = 2758 (100%) |
Males N = 1364 (46.8%) |
Females N = 1394 (53.2%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) | |||
| ≤12 | 466 (17.0) | 201 (15.6) | 265 (18.2) |
| 13 | 840 (29.5) | 407 (30.9) | 433 (28.1) |
| 14 | 870 (28.7) | 443 (30.3) | 427 (27.2) |
| ≥15 | 582 (24.9) | 313 (23.2) | 269 (26.5) |
| Bullying | |||
| Being bullied in the past month | 679 (27.8) | 383 (32.9) | 296 (23.2) |
| Among those who were bullied, the most common type of bullying | |||
| (i) Made fun of with sexual jokes, comments, and gestures | 165 (24.8) | 79 (20.1) | 86 (31.0) |
| (ii) Hit, kicked, pushed, shoved around, or locked indoors | 156 (22.7) | 120 (31.0) | 36 (12.2) |
| (iii) Made fun of because of how body or face looks | 78 (11.3) | 25 (6.4) | 53 (17.8) |
| (iv) Made fun of because of race and colour | 51 (7.7) | 28 (7.7) | 23 (7.8) |
| (v) Made fun of because of religion | 20 (2.9) | 17 (4.4) | 2 (0.6) |
| (vi) Left out of activities on purpose or ignored | 17 (2.4) | 9 (2.3) | 8 (2.5) |
| (v) Bullied in some other way | 194 (28.3) | 107 (28.2) | 86 (28.2) |
| Health behaviour | |||
| Was in a physical fight in the past 12 months | 931 (33.3) | 617 (45.6) | 314 (21.7) |
| Current smoking | 220 (8.2) | 190 (15.0) | 30 (2.2) |
| Current other tobacco use | 201 (7.2) | 183 (13.4) | 18 (1.3) |
| Current alcohol use | 368 (14.8) | 247 (21.2) | 121 (9.3) |
| Lifetime illicit drug use | 167 (6.0) | 147 (11.1) | 20 (1.3) |
| Two or more sexual partners in lifetime | 141 (5.5) | 121 (9.8) | 20 (1.6) |
| Physical activity less than 60 min per day on at least five days per week | 2073 (76.3) | 914 (67.5) | 1159 (84.6) |
| Most of the time or always hunger | 94 (3.4) | 63 (4.7) | 31 (2.1) |
| No psychosocial distress indicators | |||
| 0 | 1939 (73.4) | 935 (73.3) | 1004 (73.4) |
| 1 | 445 (16.9) | 206 (16.6) | 239 (17.3) |
| 2 | 192 (7.1) | 101 (8.0) | 91 (6.4) |
| 3 or 4 | 65 (2.5) | 27 (2.0) | 38 (3.0) |
| No close friends | 94 (3.4) | 62 (4.5) | 32 (2.4) |
| Protective factors | |||
| Truancy | 467 (17.1) | 317 (24.0) | 150 (10.6) |
| Peer support | 1123 (41.7) | 462 (34.4) | 661 (48.5) |
| Parental or guardian supervision | 994 (35.9) | 469 (35.2) | 525 (36.6) |
| Parental or guardian connectedness | 927 (34.2) | 384 (28.7) | 543 (39.3) |
| Parental or guardian bonding | 1214 (45.4) | 514 (38.6) | 700 (51.8) |