Introduction
The YRBSS was designed to:
- Assess the prevalence and trends of health risk behaviors among youth.
- Examine how often health risk behaviors coexist.
- Provide comparable national, state, and local data.
- Provide comparable data among subpopulations of young people (gender, race/ethnicity, etc.)
- Evaluate the impact of school and community interventions at the national, state, and local levels.
- Monitor progress towards Health People 2010 objectives.
Many of the questions on the YRBS are similar to those asked on the Rhode Island Department of Education's SurveyWorks! surveys. YRBS data available in the RI DataHUB helps put the prevalence of health risk behaviors among Rhode Island high school students in a regional and national context, while SALT and SurveyWorks! data allow you to focus on Rhode Island schools and students.
