Racial-Based Bullying and Substance Use: a Brazilian National Cross-Sectional Survey Among Students.

ABSTRACT: Racial discrimination has been associated with worse health status and risky health behavior. Understanding the relationship between racial-based bullying (RBB) - an overlap of bullying and interpersonal racial discrimination - and substance use can guide school-based actions to prevent bullying and substance use, but investigations rarely involve Brazilian students. We used data from the National Survey of School Health (PeNSE) 2015, which included 102,072 ninth-grade students from the capital and inland cities in the five regions of Brazil. Students self-reported their race/skin color according to the Brazilian official census. We explored racial and recent RBB differences in recent use of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances [marijuana, cocaine, crack, sniffed glue, loló/lança-perfume

SUBMITTER: Menezes AAS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9109669 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature