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The authors study the following second-order differential equation \[ (1): r(t)x''+p(t)f(x,x')+g(t,x,x')+(1+k(t))h(t,x)q(x')=\varepsilon(t,x,x'), \] with \(r(t)\neq 0\) for \(t\in \mathbb{R}_+\), \(r, k \in C_1(\mathbb{R}_+)\), \(p\in C(\mathbb{R}_+)\), \(q\in C(\mathbb{R})\), \(f\in C(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R})\), \(h, \frac{\partial h(t,x)}{\partial t} \in C(\mathbb{R}_+ \times \mathbb{R})\), \(e,g \in C(\mathbb{R}_+ \times \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R})\). They give conditions for boundedness and uniform boundedness of solutions to (1) as well as conditions for Lyapunov stability, asymptotic stability, and uniform asymptotic stability of the trivial solution (these conditions also imply the existence of the trivial solution). The Lyapunov functions approach is used to prove these results.