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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"YRBS"”.
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Relationship of the Pillars of Character and At-Risk Behaviors in Middle School Students
… questions from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Four research questions asked whether differences of the YRBS scores of risk behavior related to the character pillars of Character Counts! as linked by the independent evaluators. Questions asked whether there were differences in …
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Screen Time and the Psychological Well-Being of U.S. Teenagers: An Exploratory Re-Analysis of Data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
… data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), has remained unexplored: the use of metric methods to analyze dichotomous and ordinal data. By way of example, this study deployed binomial and ordinal regression to re-analyze data from seven administrations of YRBS between 2007 and 2019, a …
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Physical activity behaviours in school-going adolescents in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… 8-11 in Western Cape public schools from the YRBS 2, (b) to determine if there were statistically significant differences in these behaviours in comparison to the YRBS 1 and (c) to identify the characteristics of physically inactive participants. The study design was a cross sectional national …
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Eating Behavior and Obesity Risk of Youth Living in the City of San Bernardino, California
… analyzed data from the Youth Risk Behavior (YRBS) and local surveys conducted in the City’s Unified School District from 1999 through 2001. The investigators focused on the relationship, if any, of dietary and anthropometric factors to the priority adolescent behaviors targeted for …
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Resilience and Risk-Taking Behavior Among Thai Adolescents Living in Bangkok, Thailand
… version of the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) originally developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In order to make it more applicable to the Thai setting, the author modified the 2003 YRBS. The modified instrument was then translated and back translated; …
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Not Just Another Paper Cut: An Exploratory Analysis of the Silent Epidemic Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and Efforts to Control Self-Injury Among School-Based Adolescents
… six state level Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) databases for prevalence and gender frequency rates among adolescents (14-18 years old) in school-based environments (high school) and secondly, to expose the efforts towards prevention of NSSI within these environments. Research within NSSI …
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An Assessment for our Future: An Investigation of the Presence of External Ecological Assets within Three Counties and One City in Southwest Virginia 6th Grade Youth
… grade youth who participated in the 2009-2010 YRBS (n=2051) were analyzed via descriptive statistics for overall responses and Chi-Square in relation to gender and race/ethnicity. Results: Descriptive statistics and Chi-Square analysis indicated an overall positive external ecology. There were …
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The Relationship between State-Level Policy and Mental Health among Sexual Minority Youth in the United States
… the 2019 State-Level Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), completed by a representative sample (N = 153,215) of U.S. students in grades 9-12 across 44 states. The YRBS is one of the few population-based studies to gather sexual orientation data in a youth sample. Compared with living in states with …
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A Study of Suicide: A Latent Class-Evidence Based Model for Screening of Suicidal Behaviors among Adolescents Living in the United States from 1991-2011
… variables in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) ask about specific actions related to suicide ideation, planning, attempts and injury, but it is the underlying construct of "suicidal behavior" that is the ultimate question of interest. LCA allows for the development of evidence-based …
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Youth at Risk: An Analysis of the Health Behaviors of Roanoke County Students
… of responses above percents reported in national YRBS data. Additional research is needed to determine the impact of prevention programs designed to deal with these problem behaviors.
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Consider the Source : The Effects of Adult Sources of Human Immunodefciency [sic] Virus and Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention Information on Teen Risk Behaviors for Sexually Transmitted Infection
… Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBS) data to explore the prevalence of high school students with parent, school, and medical provider sources of HIV/STI prevention information and the associations of having these HIV/STI information sources with student STI risk behaviors. Social …
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Bullying of Linguistically Diverse Learners: Results from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
… reflected in the results of the 2015 national YRBS data. Significant findings for the 2015 data included LDLs being over two times as likely to be victims of bullying compared to their non-LDL counterparts. Further, 2015 findings yielded male LDLs being 2.7 times more likely to be victims of …
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Mental Health Trends Among African American High School Students
… Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) data (2011–2021). Weighted datasets were merged and analyzed using descriptive statistics, gender-stratified analyses, crosstabs, chi-square tests for trend, and visual trend analyses. Results showed large increases in all four indicators for …
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Adolescent substance use in relation to school-based extracurricular activities according to individual and school-level characteristics
… directly from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questions pertaining to students involvement in school-based activities during the past school year. The present study tested three separate hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that higher rates of involvement in extracurricular activities …
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Association Between the Frequency of Physical Education Classes and the Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Adolescents
… that used the 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) of the Center for Disease Control. The outcome variable for the study was Body Mass Index (BMI). A BMI of 25 or greater was considered overweight or obese. The main independent variable was frequency of attending physical education classes. …
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A comparison study of Montana's intermediate and K-8 schools with regard to student performance on a criterion referenced test, incidence of at-risk behaviors, and perceptions of educators from both grade configurations
… found that there were a limited number of YRBS differences between K-8 and intermediate schools. Important differences were found among non-school related behaviors.</p> <p>To compare the perception of educators working in K-8 and intermediate schools, 1-1 comparison interviews were …
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A comparison study of Montana's intermediate and K-8 schools with regard to student performance on a criterion referenced test, incidence of at-risk behaviors, and perceptions of educators from both grade configurations
… found that there were a limited number of YRBS differences between K-8 and intermediate schools. Important differences were found among non-school related behaviors.</p> <p>To compare the perception of educators working in K-8 and intermediate schools, 1-1 comparison interviews were …
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Die verband van sportdeelname met gesondheidsrisikogedrag by adolessente in die Potchefstroomdistrik
… West Province, were involved in the study. The YRBS questionnaire was used to obtain information regarding the health risk behaviour of the pupils. The health risk behaviours included violence, smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, sexual behaviour and physical inactivity. The "Statistica for Windows …