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High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · U.S.
Students in grades nine to twelve who seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, %
0 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier
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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. Help is available any time in the U.S. by calling or texting the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
CDC's national survey of high school students has asked about suicidal thoughts since the early nineties, for girls, boys and all students.
What this chart reads
- High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · Girls · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “Girls”latest 2023-01-01
- High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “All students”latest 2023-01-01
- High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · Boys · U.S. (CDC YRBS)as “Boys”latest 2023-01-01
Sources
High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · 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 H26, 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 Who Seriously Considered Suicide · 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 H26, 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 Who Seriously Considered Suicide · 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 H26, 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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