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Sexuality Services and the Political Opposition
Published in James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, The Politics of Youth, Sex, and Health Care in American Schools, 2014
James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo
In the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began an initiative to measure the risk-taking behaviors of youth. This assessment, called the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), produced data from surveys of youths in schools that could then be used to plan programs aimed at prevention of problems. The YRBSS conducted in 1999 revealed that 50 percent of all U.S. youth had experienced sexual intercourse by the twelfth year of school. Differences by racial/ethnic groups persisted: African-American teens were more likely to have engaged in intercourse (71.2 percent) than those of Hispanic background (54.1 percent) and white students (45.1 percent). However, the authors involved in this assessment, Kann and colleagues, carefully noted that “the association between race/ethnicity and certain risk behaviors is attenuated after controlling for socioeconomic status” (Kann et al., 2000:285). Although the overall rates of intercourse experience and teen pregnancy had decreased to some degree by the end of the 1990s (by 1996 the teen pregnancy rate had dropped by 15 percent from 1990) (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2001), CDC researchers concluded that “too many high school students nationwide continue to practice behaviors that place them at risk for serious health problems” including pregnancy and STDs including HIV (Kann et al., 2000:283). They strongly urged that these data be used to support public and school health prevention programs, especially for adolescents from low-income families.
Adolescent Substance Abuse in Mexico, Puerto Rico and the United States: Effect of Anonymous versus Confidential Survey Formats
Published in Ken C. Winters, Adolescent Substance Abuse: New Frontiers in Assessment, 2012
William W. Latimer, Megan S. O’Brien, Marco A. Vasquez, Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Carlos F. Rios-Bedoya, Leah J. Floyd
School-based surveys are the most common means whereby epidemiological information on adolescent substance use has been obtained during the past 25 years. In the United States, there are several examples of such national and statewide surveys. Monitoring the Future (MTF) (Johnston, O’Malley, & Bachman, 2002) and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2002) are two well-known national school-based surveys assessing adolescent substance use. In addition, the majority of states and many school districts conduct their own surveys (Hallfors & Iritani, 2002). Some states, including Iowa and Texas (Iowa Department of Public Health, 2000; Wallisch & Liu, 1998), administer their own surveys while other states choose to administer a modification of a national survey. For example, Rhode Island’s Adolescent Substance Abuse Survey (Rhode Island Department of Health, 2000) borrowed many items from the YRBSS to enhance comparability to national data. Similarly, the Maryland Adolescent Survey (Griffith, Loeb, & Dutil, 2001), and the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use by Indiana Children and Adolescents Survey (Indiana Prevention Resource Center, 2002) were modeled after the Monitoring the Future survey study (Johnston, O’Malley, & Bachman, 2002). In addition, commercial surveys, such as the PRIDE Drug Survey, have been used by several states, including Texas (Wallisch & Liu, 1998) and Ohio (Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services & Ohio Department of Education) and are available for national, state, and local administration.
Collecting and analyzing SDOH data
Published in Allyson Kelley, Public Health Evaluation and the Social Determinants of Health, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). If you need SDOH data, CDC may have it. Some of the most frequently used population health surveys include the Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System (BRFSS). BRFSS is the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world, conducting telephone interviews with more than 400,000 US adults each year in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and several US territories. The National Health andNutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program that explores health and nutritional characteristics of adults and children throughout the United States. Beginning in 1960, NHANES has continuously led the nation in sampling 5,000 persons each year across the country to track demographic, socioeconomic dietary, and health-related questions. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is part of the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System (YRBSS) that monitors health behaviors among high school students from across the United States. Other CDC surveys that can help SDOH focused evaluations include the National Health Interview Survey, National Health Care Survey Registry, National Immunization Survey, National Survey of Family Growth, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, National Hospital Discharge Survey, National Medical Expenditure Survey, National Nursing Home Survey, and National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery. These and other data sets encompass economy, employment, education, political, environmental, housing, medical, public health, psychosocial, behavioral, and transport dimensions (see: www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/docs/data_set_directory.pdf, for a directory of available data sets).
Incomplete clustering analysis via multiple imputation
Published in Journal of Applied Statistics, 2023
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a biennial survey measuring health risk behaviors among youth and adults in the US. It contains a total of 13,677 respondents and 99 questionnaires that are related to adolescents health such as bad driving behaviors, exposure to school violence, mental illness, and substance use. A full version of the data file is available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/index.htm. We generate a continuous variable for each survey category by adding items under the same category. Some items were re-coded to maintain the right direction of all items. Consequently, we have 8 continuous variables that are related to health and risky behaviors as follows. Age; BMI; Driving habits; Exposure to Sexual violence; Exposure to suicidal feelings and threatening; Smoking behaviors; Alcohol use behaviors; and Substance use behaviors.
Combined Race and Gender Trend Disparities in Depressive Symptoms among U.S. High School Students: 1999–2019
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Laura Grunin, Gary Yu, Sally Cohen
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is administered biennially by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The system of surveys was developed in 1990 to monitor the incidence, prevalence, and trends of risky health behaviors among high school students (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020d). Data are representative of students in the 50 states and the District of Columbia attending grades 9–12 in public and private schools. Parental active (send a signed form if parents will allow their child to participate) or passive (send a signed form only if parents do not want their child to participate) consent is accepted and collected prior to survey administration. Voluntary and anonymous student participation is completed using a proctored, self-administered YRBSS questionnaire given during class (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, 2013).
Isolating the Association of Sleep, Depressive State, and Other Independent Indicators for Suicide Ideation in United States Teenagers
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2019
Lynn M. Whitmore, Tyler C. Smith
The YRBSS monitors risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems in American youth (CDC, 2015b). The YRBSS started in 1990, and surveys representative groups of students in grades 9–12 every 2 years, usually in the spring semester. National surveys of high school students in public and private schools are conducted by the CDC, while state, local, territorial, and tribal government surveys are conducted by departments of health and education. Student behaviors monitored by YRBSS include behaviors that contribute to violence and injury, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, sexual behavior related to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, dietary behaviors, and physical activity. The YRBSS also monitors the prevalence of priority health-related behaviors, and, beginning in 2015, included questions about a respondent’s sexual identity and the sex of a student’s sexual contacts. In addition to its use in studies of sleep and suicidality (e.g., Fitzgerald et al., 2011), YRBSS data have been used to study behavioral risks in sexual minority students (Centers for Disease Control, 2011), the health and academic success of teens exposed to violence (Martz, Jameson, & Page, 2016), perceived discrimination and substance abuse among Cherokee Nation youths (Garrett, Livingston, Livingston, & Komro, 2017), and high school physical education requirements and student body weight (Sabia, Nguyen, & Rosenburg, 2016).