In the online December issue of Pediatrics, researchers from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University recently shared outcomes from their study “Youth Seeking Weight Loss Treatment Report Bullying by Those They Trust.”
The study design included a survey of adolescents to better understand bullying behaviors, including the location, frequency, duration and types of bullies involved.
The study found that:
- 64 percent of those surveyed reported getting bullied at school (with the risk of bullying increasing relative to the child's body weight).
- Most of the kids suffered bullying for at least one year (78 percent) while over a third (36 percent) had been dealing with bullying for five years.
- The most common bullies involved were the child's peers (92 percent) and even those kids that they considered friends (70 percent).
But one of the most disturbing findings to me is the fact that these children also report being bullied by physical education teachers and sports coaches (42%), parents (37%) and classroom teachers (27%).
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