Given the HBSC’s holistic approach to health and wellbeing, the study collects information on a variety of behaviours and indicators both directly and systemically associated with wellbeing in adolescents, in addition to demographic factors like gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. This way, researchers can investigate how different factors interact and culminate to shape youth health across Canada.
Most students reported they had never experienced specific indicators of food insecurity in their home. Food security is associated with positive mental health. Majorities of cisgender boys and cisgender girls continue to report a body mass index that was categorized as normal weight.
