Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 2025 Standard Questionnaire Item Rational [High School]

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• Alternative Title:
  Item Rationale for the 2025 Standard High School YRBS
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Description:
  These questions measure self-reported height and weight and perceived body weight. Data on self-reported height and weight are used to calculate body mass index (BMI) and determine the corresponding BMI percentile for adolescents. BMI percentile takes into account that young people are still growing and are growing at different rates depending on their age and sex. There are different ways that BMI data can be presented; CDC recommends using BMI percentile when assessing weight status for youth ages 2–20. Although BMI calculated from self-reported height and weight underestimates the prevalence of obesity compared to BMI calculated from measured height and weight, self-reported height and weight are useful for tracking BMI trends over time at a population level. Children with obesity are at higher risk of having other chronic health conditions and diseases that influence physical health. Obesity has psychological consequences as well; many youth with obesity experience weight stigma, including being bullied and teased. In the long term, youth with obesity are more likely to have obesity as an adult than children or adolescents who did not have obesity. Continued monitoring of height and weight data through the YRBS provides information at the national, state, and local levels that can be used to track progress in efforts to reduce the prevalence of obesity. Nationwide in 2021, 16% of high school students had obesity and 16% were overweight. During 1999–2021, significant linear increases occurred in the percentage of students with obesity (11%–16%) and who were overweight (14%–16%).
• Content Notes:
  Publication date approximated from file properties
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Health Chronic Disease School Health Services Students
• Keywords:
  Adolescent And School Health (Chronic Health Topic) Surveillance Systems And Data Resources Such As Methodology, Data Guides, Etc.
• Series:
  Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Survey
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  63 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/252290/cdc_252290_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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