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Social Determinants of Adolescent Risk Behaviors: An Examination of Depressive Symptoms and Sexual Risk, Substance Use, and Suicide Risk Behaviors

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the associations between social determinants of health (mother's education, socioeconomic status, levels of poverty, academic performance, and perceived racism), and reports of depressive symptoms, sexual risk, substance use, and suicide risk behaviors.Numerous studies have documented the increasing prevalence of mental health, sexual risk, and substance use behaviors in adolescents nationwide.These behaviors usually are established in adolescence, persist into adulthood, are inter-related, and preventable.In addition to causing adverse health effects, these behaviors contribute to many of the educational and social concerns within the United States, including failure to complete high school, unemployment, and poverty.The relationships among socioenvironmental factors (e.g., SES) were examined as determinants of individual risk behaviors (e.g., substance use) by utilizing an adaptation of the Conceptual Model of Race (LaVeist, 1994) and the xvi Social Determinants of Health (LaVeist, 2005b) models, called the Social Determinants of Adolescent Risk Behaviors.Cross sectional data obtained from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health (Add Health Study) Wave II Public Use Data were used for this secondary analysis.The sample consisted of high school students (n = 3,599) surveyed during the 1995-1996 academic year.Majority of the participants

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Author: Brandon N. Respress

Institution: Case Western Reserve University

Language: English

Topic: Adolescent Health and Behaviors

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health