High school students with depression or poor wellbeing are twice as likely to have vaped at some time, survey of 5,000 shows
A third of the students surveyed reported poor wellbeing, another third had high stress and one fifth had high anxiety.A third of the students surveyed reported poor wellbeing, another third had high stress and one fifth had high anxiety.
Teenagers from 40 schools across New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia answered questions on topics including drug use and vaping, possible future drug use and mental health, including symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and low wellbeing. Rising rates of vaping and poor mental health made the close association between the two even more concerning, according to study co-author and University of Sydney associate professor Emily Stockings
Those figures skyrocketed to about 24% and 13% respectively for the older 12- to 15-year-old age group, according to the nationwide Australian secondary students’ alcohol and drug survey. Only one in 20 students surveyed attended an educationally disadvantaged school and the study did not survey public schools, which Stockings said amounted to a slight limitation.
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