Youth Risk Behavior Survey Shows Increase in Bullying, Prescription Drug Use
Soon-to-be high school freshman Austin Fischer says he’s seen his peers threaten to beat each other up and call each other names. “Kids will just not show up for school and they’re just kind of scared because people tell you stuff and if they hear something they make it into more stuff even if they just heard it and it’s not true,” says Fischer. This is the second time students were directly asked about bullying and cyber-bullying in the survey. There was an increase in both categories with 26 percent of Montana high school students and fifty percent of 7th and 8th graders reporting they been bullied on school property. Nineteen percent of high school students and 23.8 percent of 7th and 8th grade students reported they had been electronically bullied such as through e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging during the past 12 months. In 2009, 23.1 percent of high school students and 38 percent of 7th and 8th graders reported being bullied at school, and 17.9 percent of high school students and 18 percent of 7th and 8th graders reported being electronically bullied. A highlight of the report is the significant decrease in alcohol abuse by Montana high school students since 2009. The percent of Montana high school students who have had a drink of alcohol in the past 30 days dropped from 43 percent in 2009 to 38 percent in 2011, and the percentage of students who reported binge drinking (five or more drinks on one occasion) during the past 30 days has dropped from 30 percent in 2009 to 25 percent in 2011.News, Sports, Weather for Great Falls, Helena, and all of Montana and its affiliated companies are not responsible for the content of comments posted or for anything arising out of use of the above comments or other interaction among the users. We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit user-generated content at any time and for any or no reason in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum.
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And Fischer isn't alone; the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows that 26% of Montana high school students and 50% of 7th and 8th grade students, reported getting bullied on school property. “Some will go too far and try and hurt them much worse than
AP FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A survey that looked at teenage suicide attempts in Alaska found the rate in the state was significantly higher than the national average as determined by similar studies. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the Annie E. Casey
Those are some of the highlights of the finds in the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey released Wednesday by the Montana Office of Public Instruction. The 93-item questionnaire is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is
Montana high school students are using less tobacco, alcohol and other drugs than they were two years ago and much less than a decade ago, according to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The number of students reporting they had five or more drinks
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A survey that looked at teenage suicide attempts in Alaska found the rate in the state was significantly higher than the national average as determined by similar studies. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the Annie E. Casey
HPV Vaccine for School Girls | Immunization Side Effects
Gardasil is an HPV vaccine that has been approved by the FDA to prevent cervical cancer in girls between the ages of 9 and 26 years of age.
The Gardasil vaccine actually protects girls who get the vaccine against 4 types of HPV, or human papillomavirus, including the two types that cause most cervical cancers and the two types that cause the most genital warts.
Since Gardasil prevents HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, it is important that it be given before people become sexually active. In fact, the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) all recommend that Gardasil be routinely given to girls when they are 11 or 12 years of age.
In fact, some states may begin requiring that school girls receive Gardasil. Texas was the first state to try and mandate that all 11- or 12-year-old girls attending public schools receive the HPV vaccine. That would mean that they would get it when they were entering the sixth grade. The state legislature enacted a law overturning the Texas governor’s orders that kids receive the HPV vaccine though.
Considering that Texas has one of the highest rates of high school students who have had sex, requiring the HPV vaccine at an early age might have been a good thing. According to the CDC 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 52% of Texas high school students reported that they have had sex versus a national median of 44% of high school students in the rest of the United States.
HPV Vaccine Controversy
Although Gardasil itself has been controversial, having a state require it for all school girls may become even more controversial.
Some experts think that Gardasil may lead to controversy because some parents will have problems thinking about giving a vaccine against a STD to pre-teens. Other parents might not want a vaccine against an STD at all, believing that their children could not be at risk, even though most reports show that half of high school students are having sex. And still others think that Gardasil might encourage promiscuity, since it could foster the belief that it protects against STDs.
Whether or not you think giving your child the HPV vaccine is a good idea, or choose to sign some kind of a waiver so that she doesn’t have to get it, which will be available in Texas, talking about Gardasil also gives you a good opportunity to talk to your child about STDs and other risks of having sex at too early an age, such as teen pregnancy.
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