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The CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) report highlights concerns for several sub-groups at heightened risk for adverse health outcomes. Students from minority groups, for instance, face elevated risks related to mental health issues, substance use, and experiencing or witnessing violence compared to their peers.
The 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which the CDC conducted, found that between 2009 and 2018, suicide rates among adolescents aged 14–18 years increased by 61.7%. [34] Furthermore, the CDC reported that in 2019, among American adolescents in grades 9 to 12: [34] 18.8% of students reported seriously considering attempting suicide
Forty-one percent of LGBTQ+ students have seriously considered suicide, according to the CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which highlights many significant health disparities for LGBTQ+ ...
Three in four high school students reported experiencing one or more ACEs in the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey from the CDC. ACES include experiencing violence, abuse, or neglect, witnessing ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a 2015 Youth Risk and Behavior Survey (YRBS), that surveyed approximately 1,285,000 LGB youth out of 16,067,000 students total in grades 9-12 nationwide and was able to provide evidence of greater physical and mental vulnerabilities among the youth of the LGBTQ community.
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which is run by the CDC, [151] is an annual survey conducted in waves by groups of individual state and territory health departments. An expanded ACE survey instrument was included in several states found each state. [149]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed its Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) in 2003 to help assess risk behavior. [27] YRBSS monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults. These are behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence;
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 ...