Teen mental health by risk factor in Delaware
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Why This Indicator Matters
Students were asked if they felt sad or hopeless for two or more weeks at a time in past 12 Months, if they had purposely hurt/cut themselves in the past 12 months, and if they had attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Data illustrate feelings of depression by different segments of the Delaware high school student population including sexual identity, race, incarceration of parents, disability status, and bullying victimization.
Of students who reported being bullied in the past year 19% reported attempting suicide, compared to 5% of students who reported not being bullied in the past year.
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Data Source: Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Center for Drug and Health Studies, University of Delaware
Footnotes:
“S” = data are suppressed where number of incidences are at or below 30 to limit the disclosure of information about individual respondents and to reduce the number of estimates with unacceptable levels of statistical reliability.
Data last updated 11/2020