scholarly journals Impact of COVID ‐19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Students From 2 Semi‐Rural High Schools in Georgia*

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 356-369
Author(s):  
Julie Gazmararian ◽  
Rachel Weingart ◽  
Katherine Campbell ◽  
Thomas Cronin ◽  
Jasleen Ashta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Rural High Schools

A nationwide cross-sectional study of difficulty waking up for school among adolescents

SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Kinoshita ◽  
Osamu Itani ◽  
Yuichiro Otsuka ◽  
Yuuki Matsumoto ◽  
Sachi Nakagome ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Underlying Disease ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Waking Up

Abstract Study Objectives To determine the prevalence of and risk-factors for difficulty waking up for school among adolescents. Methods We used a self-administered questionnaire (140 junior high schools [JHSs]; 124 senior high schools [SHSs]) selected randomly in 2012 from throughout Japan. Results Total response rate: 60.7%. Data from 38,494 JHS and 61,556 SHS students were analyzed. The prevalence of at least one instance of school tardiness/absence due to difficulty waking up over a 30-day period was 10.9(95% confidence-interval:10.5-11.3)%/2.9(2.7-3.1)% for JHS-boys and 7.7(7.3-8.1)%/2.0(1.8-2.2)% for JHS-girls. The prevalence was 15.5(15.1-15.9)%/5.6(5.3-5.9)% for SHS-boys and 14.4(14.0-14.8)%/5.9(5.6-6.2)% for SHS-girls. We used ordinal regression to identify the risk factors associated with the experience of school tardiness/absence. Factors significantly associated with school tardiness in all four groups (JHS boys/girls, SHS boys/girls) were “no-participation-in-club-activities,” “early-morning-awakening,” “feeling bad throughout a morning,” “drinking,” and “smoking.” Among associated factors, the highest odds ratio was found for monthly smoking-days (none vs. at least one-day or more) for JHS-girls at 5.30(3.57-7.85). Factors significantly associated with school absence in all four groups were “no wishing to go to university,” “no participation in club activities,” “disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep,” “long internet use,” “drinking,” “smoking,” “poor-mental-health” and “feeling bad throughout a morning.” Among associated factors, the highest odds ratio was found for monthly smoking-days (none vs. at least one-day or more) for JHS-girls at 4.60(3.45-6.15). Conclusions These results suggest that the risk factors for difficulty waking up among adolescents are sleep status, lifestyle, and mental health, which can indicate the presence of an underlying disease.

Curriculum Problems of Small Rural High Schools in Texas

1932 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 460-466
Author(s):  
D. M. Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Rural High Schools

A Cervical Cancer Curriculum for Hispanic Adolescents in Rural High Schools: A Pilot Study

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Tejeda ◽  
Beti Thompson ◽  
Gloria D. Coronado ◽  
Jane Mitchell Rees
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Hispanic Adolescents ◽  
Rural High Schools

High School Size and Student Indiscipline: Another Aspect of the School Consolidation Issue?

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emil J. Haller
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
School Consolidation ◽  
Or Efficiency ◽  
Rural High Schools ◽  
Equity And Efficiency ◽  
Large Schools ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data

School consolidation is again an issue in rural areas. Traditionally, such controversies have turned on criteria of equity and efficiency: Large schools are alleged to be more equitable and more efficient than small ones. However, the research on both criteria is exceedingly ambiguous; neither goal seems to be routinely served by making small rural schools larger. This article investigates another possible criterion for judging the desirability of creating larger schools, student indiscipline. Both theory and evidence suggest that large schools are more disorderly than small ones. Using data from a nationally representative sample of high schools, this study suggests that creating larger institutions will increase student misbehavior. However, the increase experienced by small rural high schools—those most at risk of consolidation—will border the trivial. Thus, indiscipline provides no less ambiguous a criterion for deciding consolidation issues than does equity or efficiency. Arguably, when “technical” criteria provide no clear guidelines for an important public policy decision, citizen preferences should be determinative.

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