Denny Simon, Clark Terryann, Watson Peter
The Centre for Youth Health, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
N Z Med J. 2004 Nov 5;117(1205):U1147.
To describe the health and wellbeing of alternative education (AE) students from the Northland and Auckland regions of New Zealand and compare these AE students with secondary school students of similar age from the same region.
All 36 AE schools in the region were surveyed in the year 2000. A total of 268 AE students completed a youth health questionnaire using laptop computers. Regional data from a 2001 national secondary school survey that used the same methodology was used for comparison with the AE student data.
This study found that compared to secondary school students, AE students are more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds, with proportionally more AE students reporting socioeconomic difficulty and less parental connection. AE students were more likely to be vulnerable to behaviours that endanger their health, such as drug and alcohol use, risky sexual behaviours and risky motor vehicle use than secondary school students. AE students were also more likely to suffer from high levels of depressive symptoms indicative of significant psychopathology.
Findings from this study support the need for specific policies and programs for alternative secondary school students to address urgent and serious threats to their health and wellbeing.
描述新西兰北部地区和奥克兰地区接受替代教育（AE）学生的健康和幸福状况，并将这些AE学生与来自同一地区的同龄中学生进行比较。
2000年对该地区所有36所AE学校进行了调查。共有268名AE学生使用笔记本电脑完成了一份青少年健康问卷。2001年全国中学调查中采用相同方法收集的地区数据用于与AE学生数据进行比较。
本研究发现，与中学生相比，AE学生更有可能来自弱势背景，报告社会经济困难的AE学生比例更高，与父母的联系更少。与中学生相比，AE学生更容易受到危害自身健康行为的影响，如吸毒、酗酒、危险性行为和危险驾驶机动车。AE学生也更有可能患有高水平的抑郁症状，这表明存在严重的精神病理学问题。
本研究结果支持需要为替代中学学生制定具体政策和计划，以应对对其健康和幸福的紧迫和严重威胁。
