The rising trend of emotional bullying in an Eastern Chinese City: a five-year epidemiological study among school-aged children (2020-2024).

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the epidemiological characteristics and temporal trends of school bullying, with a particular emphasis on emotional forms, among students in Jinan, China, from 2020 to 2024.METHODS: Data were collected from the Jinan Student Common Diseases and Health Influencing Factors Surveillance. A total of 84,289 participants were included through a stratified random cluster sampling design. The study assessed the prevalence and subtypes of school bullying, encompassing both physical and emotional bullying, and analyzed trends over 5 years.RESULTS: The overall prevalence of school bullying significantly increased from 10.5% in 2020 to 14.6% in 2024 (