Sentence examples for victimisation measures from inspiring English sources

Following the conclusion of the twelve-week intervention the first author again visited each classroom to re-administer the Guess Who bullying and victimisation measures.

Sexual violence victimisation was measured by asking whether the participant had ever been forced to have anal or vaginal sex, or had ever been touched sexually against his/her wishes.

To date, the vast majority of studies in this area have used self-report measures of victimisation, with only one examining officially recorded rates of crime victimisation [ 18].

Overall, the BBES appears to be a promising measure of victimisation and bullying for children with SEN.

The Bullying Behaviour and Experiences Scale (BBES) was specifically developed as a self-report measure of victimisation and bullying behaviour for children with SEN.

While the time-window for measuring repeat victimisation is known to have an effect on results (Farrell et al. 2002), the studies selected for illustration in Table 1 all used a 1 year time-window, therefore, enabling comparison.

Differences between the samples under study and the lifetime measure of victimisation may, however, account for the divergent findings.

Our measure of victimisation at each time point was created using the same procedure as described for age 13 years.

Evidence of a dose-response relation was observed between the continuous measure of victimisation and depression (adjusted linear trend odds ratio 1.08, P=0.01).

In univariable models we used logistic regression analyses to calculate odds ratios for depression at age 18 according to victimisation at age 13 (measured as a three level categorical victimisation variable and as a continuous variable).

A second limitation is that our principal measure of victimisation was self reported and people who are prone to depression may also be more likely to perceive or report incidences of victimisation.