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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2015 Jan 5;135(2):e496–e509. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-1864

TABLE 5.

Bully-Victim Moderators

Suicide Ideation
Suicide Behaviors
k (n) OR (95% CI) Q-Between k (n) OR (95% CI) Q-Between
Gender 0.93 1.02
 Mixture 9 (13) 3.43 (1.76–6.67) 6 (6) 4.16 (2.25–7.69)
 All-female 2 (3) 7.93 (1.57–39.99) 2 (2) 2.02 (0.33–12.21)
 All-male 2 (3) 5.85 (1.36–25.2) 2 (2) 6.14 (0.61–61.44)
Country 3.33 59.75**
 US 3 (4) 7.99 (3.04–21.03) 2 (2) 10.22 (9.04–11.56)
 International 8 (15) 2.70 (1.41, 5.18) 6 (8) 2.36 (1.66–3.35)
Bully assessment 17.42** 2.98
 Definition and non-behavioral 2 (4) 11.20 (5.05–24.84)
 Series of behavioral questions 4 (5) 4.72 (2.53–8.81) 3 (3) 6.20 (2.93–13.15)
 Definition and series of behavior questions
 Only asking if they were victimized/bullied 2 (2) 3.04 (1.05–8.81) 2 (2) 3.51 (1.21–10.17)
 Peer nominations 3 (8) 1.26 (0.63–2.52) 2 (3) 1.90 (0.57–6.38)
 Multiple categories

k, number of studies; n, number of effect sizes.

**

P <.01.

—, No studies used a definition and a series of behavioral questions or multiple categories to assess the relationship between bully-victim and suicidal ideation. No studies used a definition and non-behavioral questions, a definition and a series of behavioral questions, or multiple categories to assess the relationship between bully-victim and suicidal behaviors.