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Download full textJohnston, Lloyd D.; Miech, Richard A.; Patrick, Megan E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Bachman, Jerald G. – Institute for Social Research, 2023
Monitoring the Future (MTF) has become one of the nation's most relied upon scientific sources of valid information on trends in use of licit and illicit psychoactive drugs by U.S. adolescents, college students, young adults, and adults up to age 60. During the last four decades, the study has tracked and reported on the use of an ever-growing…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Direct linkBoyadjian, Tamar; Sabelli, Rachael A.; Wong, Ian L.; Skeer, Margie R. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
Substance use disorders among adolescents can have detrimental and long-term impacts on their educational goals. As such, high school students in recovery who wish to pursue a college education can face unique challenges, ranging from a potential history with the criminal justice system and inequitable evaluative metrics poorly influencing the…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, College Attendance, Student Adjustment
Barbero, Colleen; Vagi, Kevin J.; Clayton, Heather; Holland, Kristin; Hertz, Marci; Krause, Kathleen H.; Brittingham, Rochelle; Bunge, Stephanie; Saka, Susan M.; Marchessault, Nadine; Hynes, Nikardi; Green, Dan; Spell, Les; Monteiro, Karine; Murray, Kristen; Reilly-Chammat, Rosemary; Tignor, Lisha; Mercado, Melissa C. – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Research shows associations between bullying victimization and substance use for teens. However, more research about this relationship for younger adolescents and across race/ethnicity is needed. METHODS: Prevalence and pooled logistic regression analyses of 2019 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 13 states (N = 74,059…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Substance Abuse, National Surveys
Yolanda Alvarez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem this study addressed involves how college students since the year 2020 in the U.S. have been negotiating romance, dating, and sexual relationships in the unique historical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, this study addressed the problem of needing to determine how the pandemic may have disrupted college students' intimate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Dating (Social)
Kim Parker; Kiley Hurst – Pew Research Center, 2025
Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens' views on their school experiences, friendships and future plans. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,391 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 from September 18 to October 10, 2024, through Ipsos. Ipsos recruited the teens via their parents, who were part of its KnowledgePanel. The…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adolescents, Student Experience, Stress Variables
Marie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
Kevin A. Gee; Peter Yu; Arya Ansari – American Enterprise Institute, 2025
In the United States, chronic absenteeism--defined as missing 10 percent or more of the school year--dramatically increased during the pandemic and remains stubbornly high, affecting nearly a quarter of K-12 students. Several states have pledged to reduce chronic absenteeism, which requires tackling the underlying causes by analyzing the reasons…
Descriptors: Attendance, COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Characteristics
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2024
Over the past 20 years, substance use (SU) among adolescents has decreased to the lowest levels in decades. While there has been a decline, these public health successes have not been shared equally. Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist, with Black and Latinx adolescents, as well as adolescents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Early Intervention, Substance Abuse, Outcomes of Treatment
Steven B. Mertens; Micki M. Caskey – Middle Grades Review, 2024
Young adolescents undergo rapid physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual development, including puberty, sexual awareness, gender identity, physiological brain and cognitive growth, complex emotions, and impulse control. Tragically, thousands of adolescents die daily from mostly preventable causes such as violence, sexual health problems…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Risk Assessment, At Risk Persons
Spoth, Richard; Franz, Nancy; Brennan, Alison – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2021
Background: Translation science entails application of information gained through scientific research to practices intended to improve prevention and public health. The outreach arm of Land-Grant Universities--the Cooperative Extension System--is uniquely poised to facilitate this translation process and contribute to resolution of current…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Prevention, Extension Education, Capacity Building
Musco, Shaina; Hargett, Brenden; Shollenberger, Tara; Kicklighter, Jackson; Carilli, Christina – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: Pilot study to assess the efficacy of a multidisciplinary educational training program (OverdosED) designed to increase college students' knowledge of and confidence in their ability to appropriately recognize and respond to suspected overdose on depressant substances. Participants: Undergraduate students (n = 92) with Greek life…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Interdisciplinary Approach, Training, Undergraduate Students
Booth, Jaime M.; Urbaeva, Zhyldyz; Park, Daejun – Youth & Society, 2021
During adolescence, adolescents are given more freedom to independently interact with a variety of social contexts. The eco-developmental model suggests that the activity spaces where adolescents spend their time affect substance-use behaviors beyond peer influences, and that the relationships may differ based on the adolescent's demographic…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, Context Effect, Racial Differences
Webb, Lindsey; Musci, Rashelle; Mendelson, Tamar – Grantee Submission, 2021
Objective: To identify subgroups of urban youth based on their self- and teacher-reported mental health symptoms, and to explore characteristics of these subgroups. Methods: Cross-sectional data from 426 eighth-grade students (M[subscript age] = 13.22 years; 70.1% Black/ African American; 58.7% female) across 20 Baltimore City public schools were…
Descriptors: Comorbidity, Urban Youth, Mental Disorders, Grade 8
Jonita R. Shabazz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically, students of color have experienced an increased risk for exclusionary discipline outcomes (Children's Defense Fund, 1975). Discipline disproportionality continues to be a major problem in our schools today (McIntosh et al., 2018). The focus of most of the research has been on African American males; however, African American females…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Discipline, African American Students, Females
Bourgault, Anna; Etcher, LuAnn – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
Substance abuse in adolescents has been recognized as a public health problem at the national and global levels. Adolescents are at risk for experimenting with substances. School nurses in secondary schools are well positioned to screen and counsel students on substance use. In this project, school nurses' self-efficacy levels increased in using…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Referral, Substance Abuse, Public Health
