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Oct. 3—What's up with New Hampshire teens these days? Drinking, bullying, smoking pot, texting while driving, sexual violence and carrying a weapon to school. The state Department of Health and ...
The YRBSS is a key public health monitoring program in the United States that tracks various health behaviors in high school students, including a comprehensive national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and local surveys conducted by states, tribes, territories, and school districts. [1] It surveys students in grades 9–12 at their high schools.
According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Report, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), [5] "...16.6% of students had carried a weapon [to school] (e.g., a gun, knife, or club) on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey." [5] The results also indicated that 20.1% of students had been bullied on ...
According to Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2015, nationwide, 15.5% of students had been electronically bullied, counting being bullied through e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, websites, or texting, during the 12 months before the survey. [24]
The American Teen Study, which began in May 1991, was a peer-reviewed study on adolescent sexual risk-taking behavior whose funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development was shut down by former secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Louis Sullivan. [16]
Oct. 4—What's up with New Hampshire teens these days? Drinking, bullying, smoking pot, texting while driving, sexual violence and carrying a weapon to school. The state Department of Health and ...
The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nationwide 25.4% of students had been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property. The prevalence of having been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property ranged from 15.5% to 38.8% across state ...
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a United States health survey that looks at behavioral risk factors. Begun in 1984, the BRFSS is run by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted by participating individual state health departments. The survey is administered by telephone and is the world's largest such ...