A Replication Study — Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2021

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents are critical public health concerns in the United States, with suicide being the third leading cause of death among high school-aged youths (14-18 years). This study replicates and extends the findings of the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) conducted by Gaylor et al., which analyzed data from 13,677 students in 2019 and 17,232 students in 2021. The original study revealed alarming increases in suicidal ideation and behaviors, particularly among female students, and highlighted disparities across demographic groups. Using raw YRBS datasets, this replication involved a pure replication of the original findings, followed by Measurement and Estimation Analysis (MEA) and Theory of Change Analysis (TCA) to explore the interplay between bullying, sexual orientation, and suicidal behaviors. The results from the pure replication were consistent with the original findings, confirming significant associations between demographic factors and suicidal ideation. The MEA revealed significant associations between race, sexual identity, and suicidal ideation, emphasizing the importance of demographic factors. The TCA highlighted bullying as an interacting effect with sexual minority status on suicidal behaviors. Notably, bullying emerged as strong predictors of suicidal thoughts and attempts, particularly among sexual minority students. This comprehensive analysis underscores the necessity of targeted interventions and suicide prevention strategies tailored to at-risk populations, particularly in school settings

Oppression by Scientific Method: The Use of Science to “Other” Sexual Minorities

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) civil rights have become a major focus of the legislative agenda of a variety of organizations in support of and in opposition to those rights. This growing interest in LGB civil rights can be seen through the increasing news reports and political discussions concerning marriage equality, the addition of sexual orientation as a protected class to hate crime laws and workplace nondiscrimination legislation, the elimination of the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy, and the right of LGB people to adopt children. As these issues move to the forefront, different groups attempt to use scientific reports, studies, and perspectives as one way to promote their viewpoints

Sexual identity: effeminacy among university students

The study focuses on the effeminate male students of the university. The phenomenon of effeminate male students on some university campusses has become a matter of concern. It is presumably the first study of such students at an institution of higher learning. It started before this issue became a subject of debate in newspapers. The study consists of an introduction; three chapters on empirical findings pertaining to students' perceptions of effeminate male students, the psychological profile of effeminates in comparison to normal male and female students, and qualitative interviews with both the effeminates and their friends; a conclusion and seven appendices. The experts attributed sexual identity disorder to the influence of nature and nurture. They distinguished between the genetically effeminate males and those who deliberately become effeminates. It is latter that should be guided in order to eliminate their sexual identity confusion and protect the society

How Accurate is Our Misinformation?: A Randomized Trial to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Administering Alternative Survey Modes to Youth at Risk: Dominican Republic Case Study

The study reports on a randomized trial of 1,200 young adults enrolled in an employment training program, to determine the most cost-effective and appropriate interview mode for measuring youth risk behaviors. Four different survey administration modes -two interviewer-assisted (FTFI and CATI) and two self-administered modes (SAI and ACASI)-were randomly assigned. The authors have centered the study on the question of cost-effectiveness -actual implementation costs and estimates of measurement bias- and the randomization of interviewer gender in order to assess the interaction between gender and data quality. The research shows that the target population is likely to underreport sensitive questions in self-administered surveys, and thus the degree to which a mode improves self-reporting of a particular risk behavior or set of behaviors is likely to be context specific

Facets of specialization and its relation to career success : an analysis of U.S. sociology, 1980 to 2015

We investigate how sociology students garner recognition from niche field audiences through specialization. Our dataset comprises over 80,000 sociology-related dissertations completed at U.S. universities, as well as data on graduates’ pursuant publications. We analyze different facets of how students specialize - topic choice, focus, novelty, and consistency. To measure specialization types within a consistent methodological frame, we utilize structural topic modeling. These measures capture specialization strategies used at an early career stage. We connect them to a crucial long-term outcome in academia: becoming an advisor. Event-history models reveal that specific topic choices and novel combinations exhibit a positive influence, whereas focused theses make no substantial difference. In particular, theses related to the cultural turn, methods, or race are tied to academic careers that lead to mentorship. Thematic consistency of students’ publication track also has a strong positive effect on the chances of becoming an advisor. Yet, there are diminishing returns to consistency for highly productive scholars, adding important nuance to the well-known imperative of publish or perish in academic careers.National Science FoundationThe Office of the President at Stanford UniversityUS-UK Fulbright CommissionFritz Thyssen StiftungBundesministerium für Forschung und Technologi

Queering baccalaureate nursing education in Canada: a survey and qualitative content analysis of curriculum and policy documents

Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender Intersex and Queer (LBGTIQ, See: Appendix A) health and wellness data is largely ignored in policy domains. One way to redress the deleterious health effects of institutionalized cisgenderism and heterosexism is to train health professionals to be sensitive and knowledgeable about health and wellness issues that are known to greatly affect sexually and gender diverse people (aka: LBGTIQ). Studies have found that there is no standardization of sex and sexuality content in health professional education in North American universities. The present research focuses on the relative inclusion of sexuality and gender diversity health and wellness information in Canadian English language baccalaureate nursing curriculum and curricular policy. This research, informed by documented health and wellness experiences of LBGTIQ people, situated in the academic discipline of Applied Health Services Research, is a unique critical queer theoretical analysis of survey data and policy texts. The data for this research was collected from a nationwide survey of nursing school administrators in 2013, is scaffolded against LBGTIQ health and wellness literature, as well as nursing education policy. Surveys were returned from 17/76 institutions in Canada and the results show that LBGTIQ content in baccalaureate nursing curriculum in Canada is nominal, imperfect, and unregulated at best. Faculty were concerned about their own personal and professional ability to teach in the area of sexuality and gender diversity and less concerned with curricular policy advocacy in the area. After qualitative content analysis was performed on 52 educational policy documents in nursing, there revealed a need for inclusive policy development in the area of LBGTIQ subjectivities. The research found that while Canadian English language baccalaureate nursing curricular policy allows for an expanded notion of gender diversity that may give space to transgender people, queer, intersex, and other nonheteronormative notions of gender identity, it lacks clear position statements in the area of sexuality and gender diversity to be able to achieve inclusion in curriculum. The result is invisibility; haphazard inclusion; ill-defined policy with no directive from the national, provincial/territorial professional organizations. It was noted that the change in licensing exam might have affected the situation during the course of this research. Several recommendations are lobbied towards structuring LBGTIQ health and wellness curricular inclusion at the various levels of policy and pedagogy in baccalaureate nursing curriculum in Canada and a call for the nursing profession to pay attention to the political nature of policy