Background: The mental health of children is a primary public health concern; adolescents of military personnel may be at increased risk of experiencing poorer well-being overall and depressive symptoms specifically.
Survey data were utilized to examine the influence of military connectedness and parental deployment on adolescent mental health (i.e., feeling sad or hopeless, suicidal ideation, well-being, and depressive symptoms).
To examine associations between parental military service and school-based weapon carrying, school-based physical fighting and gang membership among youth.
Washington State 8th, 10th, and 12th graders were surveyed to examine the association between parental military status (civilian, military non-deployed, and military deployed within the previous six years) and school based physical violence, weapon carrying, and gang membership.
Using data from the state evaluation of Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Centers, this study employed multilevel modeling to examine racial/ethnic and programmatic factors relevant to two aspects of after-school program participation: youths voluntary participation and parents reasons for
This article aims to understand youths’ voluntary participation in afterschool programs (ASPs), as well as reasons their parents’ reasons for enrolling them, taking into consideration: race/ethnicity, program quality, and program policies.