Adolescents Who Are Cyberbullied May Experience Greater Psychiatric Symptom Severity, Small Study Indicates

Healio (1/24, Gramigna) reported, “Adolescents who were cyberbullied experienced greater psychiatric symptom severity, including for depression and PTSD,” researchers concluded after collecting and analyzing “data on the prevalence of social media utilization and cyberbullying victimization from 50 inpatients aged 13 to 17 years.” The findings of the “questionnaire-based study” were published online Jan. 14 in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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— “Victims of cyberbullying report higher levels of depression, PTSD, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, January 24, 2020

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