A guide to understanding and using the data The Youth Health Survey Anyplace region

How It Began  Identified need for local-level health behaviour information  Interlake Health Promotion Committee developed first survey – YHS 2005  YHS 2005 was adopted by all of Manitoba’s RHAs and implemented province-wide between 2006 and 2008

Survey Tool  4 pages, 51 questions  Census of grades 6 to 12 students (some regions surveyed grades 9 to 12 students)  Includes questions on tobacco, nutrition, physical activity, self-esteem, mental health, school connectedness Self-Report  Data collected in classroom setting  Self-reported responses of the students  All responses kept confidential to encourage honesty in reporting

 Generated at school, school division and regional levels  Generated for each school except where adaptations were made for small schools to maintain the confidentiality of the students  Where possible, findings were reported by grade and gender  Where numbers were too small, results were not reported

 For easy reference, report highlights were chosen from throughout the document and compiled into a one page summary at the beginning of the report

 Students were asked the following for both hard and moderate activity:

Example: If a student reported 3 hours and 15 minutes of hard activity and 5 hours and 30 minutes of moderate activity their estimated KKD is 5.14 KKD = (3.25* *3) / 7days =5.14 KKD

Results from Anyplace region

Results from Anyplace Region

 Spending less leisure time in front of a TV or computer screen is associated with healthier lifestyles for youth.

Students were asked:

The graph represents the percentage of students that felt the subject was taught in their school

 Students were asked how many times over the previous day they had eaten a variety of fruits and vegetables  These numbers were combined to produce an average daily intake of fruits and vegetables

 Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of a person’s weight in comparison to their height  BMI is then assigned a percentile based on age and gender  This percentile was converted to one of the three categories found in the report

Body weight at Anyplace School

 Students were asked the following:

 Daily Smokers- students who answered “everyday” or “almost everyday” to this question  Occasional Smokers- students who answered “some days” or “1-2 days” to this question. Also those that answered “yes” without specifying a frequency or “no” but that they had smoked 100 or more cigarettes in their lifetime (previous question)

Students Smoking at Anyplace RHA

Students were asked:

How do you usually get your cigarettes?% responding I buy them myself 21% Someone buys them for me 15% From friends 17% From home 6% Other 29% How students get their cigarettes

Alcohol Use in Anyplace region

Students were asked on how many days in the past 30 days that they had 5 or more drinks of alcohol in a couple of hours The percentage reported is based on the total number of students not just those that had reported alcohol use in the previous question  68% of students indicated they had not drank 5 or more drinks in the last 30 days  15% had 5 or more drinks of alcohol on 1 or 2 days  9% had 5 or more drinks of alcohol on 3 to 14 days  2% had 5 or more drinks of alcohol on 15 to 30 days

 Students were asked on how many days in the last 30 days they had used illegal drugs  All drugs were classified together  The percentage reported is based on the total number of students

Drug Use at Anyplace region

 38% of students reported “yes”.

Students were asked:

Agree with each of the following statements:% responding I feel close to people at this school 80% I feel I am a part of this school 83% I am happy to be at this school 78% I feel safe at my school 84% School Connectedness at Anyplace region

Questions??