ABSTRACT: Priority health‐risk behaviors, which contribute to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among youth adults, often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, interrelated, preventable. This report covers data February‐December 2001. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories priority healthrisk behaviors young adults; these unintentional injuries violence; tobacco use; alcohol other drug sexual that unintended pregnancy sexually...

ABSTRACT: Priority health‐risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among youth adults often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, interrelated. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories priority young adults: unintentional intentional injuries, tobacco use, alcohol other drug sexual behaviors, unhealthy dietary physical inactivity. YRBSS includes both a national school‐based survey...

Priority health-risk behaviors, which contribute to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among youth adults, often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, interrelated, preventable. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories priority behaviors young adults--behaviors that unintentional intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol other drug sexual unintended pregnancy sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) (including human immunodeficiency...

ABSTRACT: Priority health‐risk behaviors, which contribute to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among youth adults, often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, interrelated. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories priority behaviors young adults — that unintentional intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol other drug sexual unintended pregnancy sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) (including human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]...

Results from the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, which monitored health risk behaviors among US college and university undergraduates, suggest that many students' increase their likelihood of adverse outcomes. During 30 days preceding survey, 34% participants had consumed five or more alcoholic drinks on at least one occasion, 27% drunk alcohol driven a car. Thirty-one percent smoked cigarettes regularly during lifetimes, 49% ever used marijuana, 30% condom last sexual...

This study was undertaken to examine whether use of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and other illicit drugs is related the likelihood sexual behaviors that increase risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among youth.The 1990 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey used collect self-reported information about a broad range health from representative sample 11,631 high school students in United States.Students who reported no substance were least likely report having had...

Monitoring the implementation of a program being evaluated can improve interpretability data collected and help evaluators to avoid committing Type III error: evaluating that has not been adequately implemented. This article describes an evaluation analyzed school health education curriculum, assessed cognitive learning outcomes attributable examined relationship between classroom changes in students' knowledge. Five fifth-grade classes (n = 101) participated five 84) served as comparison...

ABSTRACT: Priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among youth adults often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, interrelated. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories priority adults: unintentional intentional injuries, tobacco use, alcohol other drug sexual behaviors, dietary physical activity. YRBSS includes a national, school‐based survey conducted by CDC state...

Alternative high schools serve approximately 280,000 students nationwide who are at risk for failing or dropping out of regular school have been expelled from because illegal activity behavioral problems. Such settings provide important opportunities delivering health promotion education and services to these youth young adults. However, before this survey, the prevalence health-risk behaviors among attending alternative was unknown. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)...

(1990). An Epidemiological Surveillance System to Monitor the Prevalence of Youth Behaviors That Most Affect Health. Health Education: Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 44-48.

ABSTRACT: In the Go For Health project, interventions based on organizational change and social learning theory facilitate changes in diet exercise behavior by elementary school children. Baseline data documented need for change. Based chemical analyses, average per meal amounts of total fat sodium were higher than national recommendations: was 29.3% U.S. Dietary Goals; 107.4% greater recommended levels. Observations students physical education class revealed children moved through space...

Smoke-free air policies have been shown to reduce smoking, but the mechanism of behavior change is not well understood. The authors used structural equation modeling conduct a theory planned analysis with data from 395 smokers living in seven Texas cities, three comprehensive smoke-free law and four without law. Agreement regulating smoking public places was significantly associated attitudes perceived normative pressure about quitting. Nicotine dependence behavioral control. There also...

High rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV infection, among adolescents are major public health concerns that have created interest in trends teenage sexual activity.Nationally representative data from Youth Risk Behavior Surveys conducted 1990, 1991, 1993 1995 used to examine levels experience, age at first intercourse, current activity condom use last intercourse students grades 9-12.The proportion who reported being experienced remained...

To determine if school violence is associated with substance use and availability of illegal drugs at school, this study examined data from the 1995 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a nationally representative sample 10,904 high students. Adjusted odds ratios were calculated to describe associations tobacco, alcohol, marijuana (on off property), five indicators violence--weapon-carrying, physical fighting, having property stolen or damaged, being threatened injured, absent because feeling unsafe....