Adolescent Health Survey: University Of British Columbia

Vancouver Sun Dept: The University of British Columbia's academic study of homestay youth shows that this matter is anything but academic. Led by a nursing and health policy research professor, Sabrina Wong, the study suggests that youth in homestays are much more likely to be involved with sex and drugs than immigrant children, according to Vancouver Sun. Among the key findings, the study discovered that 25 per cent of homestay students had had sexual intercourse, compared to just nine per cent of immigrants and 12 per cent of Canadian-born students and moving to a different country with a different language is hard enough. But when you're a young teenager, and when you have little adult supervision, it can be a recipe for disaster. Wong and her colleagues analyzed data from the B.C. Adolescent Health Survey, a provincewide review of 30,500 students from grades 7 to 12. They looked specifically at the responses of roughly 3,000 students who identified themselves as East Asian, and compared those in homestays with two groups: immigrant students living with their parents, and Canadian-born students of East Asian heritage. As reported in the news.
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