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Download full textMontana Office of Public Instruction, 2018
The Montana Office of Public Instruction administers the Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems that can…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, High School Students, Risk, State Surveys
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Direct linkKorpics, Jacqueline; Altman, Lara; Feinglass, Joseph; Stillerman, Audrey – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impair health and other outcomes. To obtain district-level data about the prevalence and impact of ACEs in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), we advocated for CPS to add a short ACE screener to the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and analyzed the results. Methods: Responses to the screener…
Descriptors: Incidence, Early Experience, Trauma, Child Abuse
Armstrong-Carter, Emma; Johnson, Catherine; Belkowitz, Julia; Siskowski, Connie; Olson, Elizabeth – Society for Research in Child Development, 2021
In the United States, more than 5.4 million children and adolescents under age 18 provide care for family members who are aging or have chronic illness, disability, or other health conditions that require assistance. In this policy report, we describe youth's care for the family, and highlight the increasing prevalence, global challenges, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Caregivers, Well Being
Barbero, Colleen; Vagi, Kevin J.; Clayton, Heather; Holland, Kristin; Hertz, Marci; Krause, Kathleen H.; Brittingham, Rochelle; Bunge, Stephanie; Saka, Susan M.; Marchessault, Nadine; Hynes, Nikardi; Green, Dan; Spell, Les; Monteiro, Karine; Murray, Kristen; Reilly-Chammat, Rosemary; Tignor, Lisha; Mercado, Melissa C. – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Research shows associations between bullying victimization and substance use for teens. However, more research about this relationship for younger adolescents and across race/ethnicity is needed. METHODS: Prevalence and pooled logistic regression analyses of 2019 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 13 states (N = 74,059…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Substance Abuse, National Surveys
Perrault, Evan K.; Albert, Cindy A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
Sustainability-related learning objectives in university curricula are becoming increasingly popular. While knowledge gain is usually a prevalent metric of success, this study assessed whether a project-based learning assignment could lead to attitudinal shifts in students regarding sustainability. After performing both primary…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Sustainability, Student Attitudes
Scoggins, Dylan; Khan, Ali S.; Dai, Hongying – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Sexual minority youth have a higher risk of suicidal behaviors than their straight peers. Despite this alarming trend, there is limited information on how health-risk factors are systematically associated with suicidal outcomes in relation to the intersection of sex and sexual orientation identity. Data from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey…
Descriptors: Suicide, At Risk Persons, Youth, Sexual Orientation
Choi, Jeong-Sil; Kim, Ji-Soo – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: We explored the relationship between body mass index-for-age percentile, body image distortion, and unnecessary weight loss efforts in Korean adolescent girls who are underweight and normal weight and examined the mediating effect of body image distortion on weight loss efforts. Methods: This study used data from the 2013 Korea Youth…
Descriptors: Human Body, Self Concept, Correlation, Body Weight
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2017
The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is administered by the Montana Office of Public Instruction every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, High School Students, Risk, Student Surveys
Brown, Brande; Ruggles, Kelly V.; Le, Francesca T.; Rajan, Sonali – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Among adolescents, the pathway from being offered drugs to engaging in drug use has been established. The prevalence of drug transactions specifically in schools is less understood. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of adolescents who have reported drug transaction experiences (being offered, sold, or given an…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Adolescents, High School Students, Incidence
Jackman, Kasey; Kreuze, Elizabeth J.; Caceres, Billy A.; Schnall, Rebecca – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: Youth with multiple minority identities, such as those who are both sexual minority (eg, lesbian, gay, bisexual) and racial/ethnic minority (eg, Black, Latino) may be at increased risk for bullying and peer victimization. Methods: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data (2011-2017) were analyzed (N = 114,881; 50.8% girls; mean age = 15.7…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Minority Groups, At Risk Persons
Kim, Youn Kyoung; Sanders, Jane E.; Makubuya, Timothy; Yu, Mansoo – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Experiencing school violence can have a detrimental effect on learning. However, it is unclear whether different types of school violence have different impacts based on gender. Moreover, there is insufficient understanding of the direct and indirect effects of experiencing school violence on academic performance through perceived school safety…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Risk, Academic Achievement, Student Experience
François, Amir; Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah; Waasdorp, Tracy E.; Parker, Elizabeth M.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: Social norm interventions have been implemented in schools to address concerns of alcohol use among high school students; however, research in this area has not incorporated measures of variability that may better reflect the complexity of social influences. Purpose: To examine the association between perceived alcohol norms, the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, High School Students
Pickett, Andrew C.; Valdez, Danny; Barry, Adam E. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: To quantitatively measure psychometric impact associated with changes to sexual and gender identity survey questions included on the National College Health Assessment (NCHA). Participants: Respondents included all iterations (31) of the NCHA between the years of 2000 and 2015 (N=1,202,582). Methods: Secondary analysis using complete…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People, Test Reliability
Tennessee Department of Education, 2020
The Tennessee Department of Education's office of coordinated school health (CSH) works with every school district in the state to address all aspects of student health, with a special emphasis on reducing Tennessee's childhood obesity rates. Encouraging adequate physical activity and providing physical education for all students are the central…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Health Behavior
Brinkman, Jesse; Garnett, Bernice; Kolodinsky, Jane; Wang, Weiwei; Pope, Lizzy – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Food insecurity (FI) is a significant predictor of feelings of isolation in children, as well as suicide ideation and depression. Using a census of public middle school-aged children, we seek to determine whether FI is associated with suicide ideation and feelings of hopelessness and how individual and school community factors can…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Hunger, Well Being, Mental Health
