Original articleAn assessment of the effect of data collection setting on the prevalence of health risk behaviors among adolescents
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Sampling
Both the 1992 NHIS/YRBS and the 1993 national school-based YRBS are part of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which periodically measures the prevalence of priority health risk behaviors among adolescents. The 1992 NHIS was conducted among a representative sample of the civilian non-institutionalized U.S. population using a multistage cluster-area probability design of approximately 120,000 persons representing 49,000
Results
As can be seen in Table 1, the demographic characteristics of each survey subgroup do not differ significantly. Both samples contained about equal percentages of males and females and had similar grade, age, and race/ethnicity distributions, although the sample of students in the school-based survey was slightly older and more likely to be white.
Discussion
This study documents the importance of data collection setting on the prevalence of health risk behaviors among high school students. Of the 42 comparisons, 39 showed that the 1993 YRBS produced estimates indicating higher risk (though not always statistically higher) than the 1992 NHIS/YRBS. Twenty-four comparisons showed that the YRBS estimates were statistically higher than the NHIS/YRBS estimates. In only one instance, fruit and vegetable consumption, did the NHIS/YRBS estimate indicate
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