Letters
Peer victimisation and depression
Authors’ reply to Males
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3648 (Published 07 July 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h3648
- Lucy Bowes, Leverhulme early career research fellow1,
- Carol Joinson, senior lecturer2,
- Dieter Wolke, professor3,
- Glyn Lewis, professor and chair in clinical trials and applied epidemiology4
- 1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
- 2Centre for Academic Mental Health, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- 3Department of Psychology and Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
- 4Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK
- lucy.bowes{at}psy.ox.ac.uk
Our population attributable fraction (PAF) suggested that 29.2% (95% confidence interval 10.9% to 43.7%) of depression at age 18 years could be explained by peer victimisation if this were a causal association.1 Males suggests that, owing to serious limitations in our dataset—particularly “the confounding variable of previous adult bullying in childhood”—this is an overestimate.2
Firstly, it is important to …
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