Secondary students in PUSD reported declining rates of chronic sadness/hopelessness and suicidal ideation from 2020/21 to 2022/23¶
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q2 i? The percentage of PUSD secondary students reporting chronic sadness/hopelessness and serious consideration of suicide declined between 2020/21 and 2022/23 per California Healthy Kids Survey data. → Paradise Unified School District: Building School Mental Health Systems to Support Healing and Recovery Through Project Cal-Well 2024
Evidence¶
Paradise Unified School District: Building School Mental Health Systems to Support Healing and Recovery Through Project Cal-Well 2024¶
Paradise Unified School District: Building School Mental Health Systems to Support Healing and Recovery Through Project Cal-Well. (2024). WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED655970
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Repeated cross-sectional CHKS survey data for PUSD students in grades 7, 9, and 11, shown in Table 1 for 2020/21 through 2022/23. The brief reports "a reduction in the percentage of secondary students" on both indicators; Table 1 prints percentages (e.g., 56% to 24% for chronic sadness) but no statistical test or effect size.
"California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) student data demonstrate a reduction in the percentage of secondary students reporting that they experienced chronic sadness/hopelessness and that they had seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- The percentage of secondary students reporting high school connectedness on the CHKS increased from 32 percent to 36 percent — related
- Secondary students' reported barriers to talking to a counselor or therapist declined in NHUHSD's California Healthy Kids Survey data — related
- Secondary students in PUSD increasingly reported open mental health conversations at school and knowing where to go for help from 2020/21 to 2022/23 — related
- Severe depressive symptoms co-occur with self-harm and suicidal tendencies among vocational students — related
- From fall 2020 through December 2023, 78 percent of the 969 students referred to mental health services in PUSD received services — related
- Transgender students across all race/ethnicity groups report suicide ideation at 45–57%, versus no more than 20% of non-transgender students — related
- Bisexual students in every race/ethnicity group report chronic sadness at more than twice the rate of straight students — related
- School-based mental health supports benefit students, but staffing ratios and service availability fall far short of recommendations — related
- Depressive symptoms are detected in 26.35% of secondary vocational students — related
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Secondary students in PUSD reported declining rates of chronic sadness/hopelessness and suicidal ideation from 2020/21 to 2022/23 |
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Secondary students in PUSD reported declining rates of chronic sadness/hopelessness and suicidal ideation from 2020/21 to 2022/23 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-09 |
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