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Article: Health-Risk Behaviors Among Middle School Students In A Large Majority-Minority School District.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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In 1990, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) to focus the nation on specific health-related behaviors among youth contributing to leading causes of death, disease, disability, and social problems in the United States.[1,2] Specifically, CDC developed the High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) to: 1) monitor six health-risk priority areas; 2) assess whether health-risk behaviors among youth increase, decrease, or remain the same over time; and 3) provide comparable data among national, state, and local samples of youth. Content validity and test-retest reliability of the YRBS were ...