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Published on: July 29, 2020
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Lynn Rew1, Sharon D Horner, Rachel T Fouladi
1The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. ellerew@mail.utexas.edu <ellerew@mail.utexas.edu>
Abstract:
Health behaviors of school-aged children are the precursors of adolescents' health-risk behaviors. The study reported here is the first wave of a cohort-sequential longitudinal study of health-risk behaviors in youth. Using a youth resilience framework, researchers collected data from 1,934 youth in Grades 4-6. Statistically significant differences in health behaviors were found for gender, ethnicity, and grade level, which accounted for only 2% of the variance. Risk and protective factors accounted for an additional 18% of variance in health behaviors. With the federal mandate for schools to establish wellness policies, school nurses are ideally situated to influence school environments to support children's healthy behaviors.
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