School-Level Poverty and Persistent Feelings of Sadness or Hopelessness, Suicidality, and Experiences with Violence Victimization among Public High School Students

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• Alternative Title:
  J Health Care Poor Underserved
• Personal Author:
  Jones, Sherry Everett ; Underwood, J. Michael ; Pampati, Sanjana ; Le, Vi Donna ; DeGue, Sarah ; Demissie, Zewditu ; Adkins, Susan Hocevar ; Barrios, Lisa C.
• Description:
  Objectives. ; To examine the association between school-level poverty status and students’ persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, suicidality, and experiences with violence victimization among U.S. high school students. ; Methods. ; Public schools captured in the 2015 and 2017 national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys were categorized as high-, mid-, or low-poverty based on the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals (N=29,448). ; Results. ; Students in high-poverty schools were signifi cantly more likely than students in low-poverty schools to experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, experience suicidal thoughts and attempts, not go to school because of safety concerns, be threatened or injured with a weapon on school property, be bullied on school property, be physically forced to have sexual intercourse, and be victims of sexual and physical dating violence. ; Conclusions. ; School and community approaches to address suicide and violence victimization may be especially important for students living in poverty.
• Subjects:
  • Adolescent
  • Bullying
  • Crime Victims
  • Emotions
  • Humans
  • Poverty
  • Sadness
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Suicide
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Adolescent
  • poverty
  • violence
  • suicide
• Source:
  J Health Care Poor Underserved. 31(3):1248-1263
• Pubmed ID:
  33416692
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11382096
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/162381/cdc_162381_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 111.19 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
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