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Evaluation of Iowa’s anti-bullying law

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Epidemiology, June 2016
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Title
Evaluation of Iowa’s anti-bullying law
Published in
Injury Epidemiology, June 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40621-016-0080-9
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Marizen Ramirez, Patrick Ten Eyck, Corinne Peek-Asa, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Joseph E. Cavanaugh

Abstract

Bullying is the most common form of youth aggression. Although 49 of all 50 states in the U.S. have an anti-bullying law in place to prevent bullying, little is known about the effectiveness of these laws. Our objective was to measure the effectiveness of Iowa's anti-bullying law in preventing bullying and improving teacher response to bullying. Sixth, 8th, and 11th grade children who completed the 2005, 2008 and 2010 Iowa Youth Survey were included in this study (n = 253,000). Students were coded according to exposure to the law: pre-law for 2005 survey data, one year post-law for 2008 data, and three years post-law for 2010 data. The outcome variables were: 1) being bullied (relational, verbal, physical, and cyber) in the last month and 2) extent to which teachers/adults on campus intervened with bullying. Generalized linear mixed models were constructed with random effects. The odds of being bullied increased from pre-law to one year post-law periods, and then decreased from one year to three years post-law but not below 2005 pre-law levels. This pattern was consistent across all bullying types except cyberbullying. The odds of teacher intervention decreased 11 % (OR = 0.89, 95 % CL = 0.88, 0.90) from 2005 (pre-law) to 2010 (post-law). Bullying increased immediately after Iowa's anti-bullying law was passed, possibly due to improved reporting. Reductions in bullying occurred as the law matured. Teacher response did not improve after the passage of the law.

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Canada 1 1%
Unknown 71 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 24 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 14%
Social Sciences 10 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 8%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 25 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 September 2016.
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