In-person school attendance and adolescent exposure to injury-related risk behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

ABSTRACT: School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported to influence adolescents' behavioral health and may have altered their exposure to injury risk. We aimed to determine how in-person school attendance of individual adolescents in the United States during the pandemic was correlated with a range of risky health behaviors. We used self-reported data from adolescents 14-18 years old enrolled in grades 9-12 who participated in the 2020 Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey. The exposure of interest was in-person vs remote school attendance in the previous 30 days. Risk behavior outcomes included not wearing a seatbelt when riding in a car; riding with someone who was drinking and driving; suffering intimate partner violence (IPV); forced sexual encounters; suicidal ideation;

SUBMITTER: Urbik V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079588 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature