Bernalillo County Health Highlights: Percentage of Students Who Felt Sad or Hopeless Almost Every Day

Mental Health: Youth Feeling Sad/Hopeless

Bernalillo County Compared to State


*Description of Dashboard Gauge

Description of the Dashboard Gauge

This "dashboard" type graphic is based on the community data on the right. It compares the community value on this indicator to the state overall value.
  • Excellent = The community's value on this indicator is BETTER than the state value, and the difference IS statistically significant.
  • Watch = The community's value is BETTER than state value, but the difference IS NOT statistically significant.
  • Improvement Needed = The community's value on this indicator is WORSE than the state value, but the difference IS NOT statistically significant.
  • Reason for Concern = The community's value on this indicator is WORSE than the state value, and the difference IS statistically significant.

The community value is considered statistically significantly different from the state value if the state value is outside the range of the community's 95% confidence interval. If the community's data or 95% confidence interval information is not available, a blank gauge image will be displayed with the message, "missing information."
NOTE: The labels used on the gauge graphic are meant to describe the community's status in plain language. The placement of the gauge needle is based solely on the statistical difference between the community and state values. When selecting priority health issues to work on, a community should take into account additional factors such as how much improvement could be made, the U.S. value, the statistical stability of the community number, the severity of the health condition, and whether the difference is clinically significant.

Why Is This Important?

According to results from the 2006-2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 9.1% of New Mexico youth 12-17 years old had at least one major depressive episode in the past 12 months. Persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness are a risk factor for depression. Students who reported these feelings of sadness or hopelessness were more likely than other students to report suicide attempts, cigarette smoking, binge drinking and illicit drug use.

Percentage of Students Who Felt Sad or Hopeless Almost Every Day by County, New Mexico, 2001-2009

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Bernalillo County 30.4%
95% Confidence Interval

Description of 95% Confidence Interval

The confidence interval indicates the range of probable true values for the level of risk in the community.

A value of "DNA" (Data Not Available) will appear if the confidence interval was not published with the IBIS indicator data for this measure.

For more information on confidence intervals, visit the New Mexico IBIS confidence interval page at http://ibis.health.state.nm.us/resources/ConfidenceInterval.html.
(28.3% - 32.6%)
Statistical Stability

Description of Statistical Stability

  • Stable = This count or rate is relatively stable and should provide a good estimate of your community risk.
  • Unstable = This count or rate is statistically unstable (RSE >0.30), and may fluctuate widely due to random variation (chance).
  • Very Unstable = This count or rate is extremely unstable (RSE >0.50). This value should not be used to represent your population risk. You should combine years or otherwise increase the population denominator in this calculation.
  • DNA = Data Not Available. The required community value and/or confidence interval was not available for this measure.

For more information on statistical stability, visit the New Mexico IBIS Reliability and Validity page at http://ibis.health.state.nm.us/resources/ReliabilityValidity.html.
Stable
New Mexico 29.7%
U.S. 26.1%

Note

The Sandoval county rate has been suppressed because it is not representative of Sandoval County. The NM, overall, value was calculated from the standard CDC YRRS dataset and is consistent with the rates found on the CDC Website. The county values were calculated from a special New Mexico dataset that has a larger survey sample size. The U.S. Value is for 2009.

Data Sources

New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, New Mexico Department of Health and Public Education Department.  

Measure Description for Mental Health: Youth Feeling Sad/Hopeless

Definition: Percentage of students who felt so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that they stopped doing some usual activities during the past 12 months
Numerator: Number of surveyed students who felt so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that they stopped doing some usual activities during the past 12 months
Denominator: Total number of survey respondents except those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure," and "Refused" responses.
Click on this link to jump to the complete indicator profile report for Mental Health: Youth Feeling Sad/Hopeless (exits this community report).
Date Indicator Content Last Updated: 01/10/2011
Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, New Mexico Department of Health, Epidemiology and Response Division, Injury and Behavioral Epidemiology Bureau, Santa Fe, NM, 87502. Telephone: (505) 476-1779
The information provided above is from the New Mexico Department of Health's NM-IBIS web site (http://ibis.health.state.nm.us). The information published on this website may be reproduced without permission. Please use the following citation: "Retrieved Wed, 19 June 2013 19:27:29 from New Mexico Department of Health, Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health Web site: http://ibis.health.state.nm.us".

Content updated: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:25:00 MDT