SC Youth Risk Behaviors Survey (YRBS)

The YRBS has been conducted in South Carolina in high schools every other year since 1991 and in middle schools since 2005. The surveys, conducted in the spring of odd-numbered years by The Office of Student Intervention Services at the SC Department of Education, is part of a national effort to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. These behaviors, often established during childhood and early adolescence, include:

• Tobacco use
• Unhealthy dietary behaviors
• Inadequate physical activity
• Alcohol and drug use
• Sexual behaviors that contribute to HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancies
• Behaviors that contributed to intentional and unintentional injury, including suicide

SC YRBS Results

Detailed results are available on this Web site for 2019 along with trend analysis reports that show historical data. To view a specific document from the list below, please click on HS for high school data . Fact sheets for that combine the SC YRBS and SC Profiles data for can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/factsheets.

For more information about the SC YRBS or copies of the reports, please contact Tiffany Robinson  at 803-734-8279.

More information about the YRBS is available on the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs.