Implications for Coding Race and Ethnicity for American Indian and Alaska Native High School Students in a National Survey

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• Alternative Title:
  J Health Care Poor Underserved
• Personal Author:
  Jones, Sherry Everett ; Satter, Delight E.
• Description:
  Objectives.
  
  To examine the impact of racial/ethnic coding strategies on the estimated prevalence of risk behaviors among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) high school students.
  
  Methods.
  
  Data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (2017 and 2019) were analyzed (N=28,422). Racial/ethnic data were coded to identify “Multiracial/ethnic AI/AN students” and “AI/AN alone students.” The prevalence of persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, suicidality, and violence victimization were compared across the coding schemes and with non-Hispanic White students.
  
  Results.
  
  Of students who self-identified as AI/AN, one in six (18%) were AI/AN alone. The prevalence of many health risk behaviors was significantly higher among AI/AN students than non-Hispanic/Latino White students. The precision of the risk behavior prevalence estimates, however, varied considerably.
  
  Conclusion.
  
  How racial/ethnic data were coded affected the precision of calculations of risk behavior prevalence among AI/AN students, who are often multiracial and of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Alaska Natives Ethnicity Humans Indians, North American Racial Groups Risk-Taking Students United States
• Keywords:
  Alaska Native American Indian Suicide Violence
• Source:
  J Health Care Poor Underserved. 33(3):1245-1257
• Pubmed ID:
  36245161
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11354194
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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