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High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · U.S.
Students in grades nine to twelve who felt so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks that they stopped usual activities, past year, %
0 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Teen measures from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a national survey of high school students every two years (use does not imply CDC endorsement). Self-reported; not a diagnosis. Each estimate has a confidence interval of a few points.
CDC's longest-running national read on persistent sadness among American teenagers, for girls, boys and all students.
What this chart reads
- High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · Girls · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “Girls”latest 2023-01-01
- High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “All students”latest 2023-01-01
- High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · Boys · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “Boys”latest 2023-01-01
Sources
High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · Girls · U.S. (CDC YRBS). Source: CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), national high school estimates: data.cdc.gov svam-8dhg (DASH YRBSS High School, question H25, through 2017) and nu3s-3dwd (YRBSS Mental Health Indicators, 2019 onward), https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/. Public domain; source: CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government. The data are available from data.cdc.gov at no charge. Refreshed monthly by cdc-yrbs-sync.
High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · U.S. (CDC YRBS). Source: CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), national high school estimates: data.cdc.gov svam-8dhg (DASH YRBSS High School, question H25, through 2017) and nu3s-3dwd (YRBSS Mental Health Indicators, 2019 onward), https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/. Public domain; source: CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government. The data are available from data.cdc.gov at no charge. Refreshed monthly by cdc-yrbs-sync.
High Schoolers Persistently Sad or Hopeless · Boys · U.S. (CDC YRBS). Source: CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), national high school estimates: data.cdc.gov svam-8dhg (DASH YRBSS High School, question H25, through 2017) and nu3s-3dwd (YRBSS Mental Health Indicators, 2019 onward), https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/. Public domain; source: CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government. The data are available from data.cdc.gov at no charge. Refreshed monthly by cdc-yrbs-sync.
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