Exploring the relationship between cyberbullying and unnatural child death: An ecological study of twenty-four European countries

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fu, King wa ^a   Chan, Chung hong ^a   Ip, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Cyberbullying; Europe; Internet; Statistics and numerical data

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BULLYING; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CYBERBULLYING; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; SUICIDE; UNNATURAL CHILD DEATH; ACCIDENT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BULLYING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84906822482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-195     Document Type: Article

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