OBJECTIVE: Being overweight or @entity28 is one of the most common reasons that @entity1 and adolescents are teased at school. We carried out a study in order to investigate: i) the relation between weight status and school bullying and ii) the relation between weight status categories and types of victimization and bullying in an outpatient sample of Italian @entity1 and adolescents with different degrees of overweight from minimal overweight up to severe @entity28 . @entity1 /METHODS: Nine-hundred-forty-seven outpatient @entity1 and adolescents (age range 6.0-14.0 years) were recruited in 14 hospitals distributed over the country of Italy. The @entity1 were classified as normal-weight (N = 129), overweight (N = 126), moderately @entity28 (N = 568), and severely @entity28 (N = 124). The nature and extent of verbal, physical and relational bullying and victimization were assessed with an adapted version of the revised Olweus bully-victim questionnaire. Each @entity1 was coded as bully, victim, bully-victim, or not involved. RESULTS: Normal-weight and overweight @entity1 were less involved in bullying than @entity28 @entity1 ; severely @entity28 males were more involved in the double role of bully and victim. @entity28 @entity1 and adolescents suffered not only from verbal victimization but also from physical victimization and exclusion from group activities. Weight status categories were not directly related to bullying behaviour; however severely @entity28 males perpetrated more bullying behaviour compared to severely @entity28 females. CONCLUSIONS: @entity28 and bullying among @entity1 and adolescents are of ongoing concern worldwide and may be closely related. Common strategies of intervention are needed to cope with these two social health challenges.

Bullying and Victimization in Overweight and Obese Outpatient XXXX and Adolescents: An Italian Multicentric Study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'children', 'participant', 'PARTICIPANTS'] @entity28 :: ('MESH:D009765', 'Disease') :: ['Obesity', 'obese', 'obesity', 'Severely obese']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['Children']
