Citation

Harpin SB, Sieving RE, Bernat DH, Bearinger LH. Health Behav. Policy Rev. 2014; 1(5): 351-361.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Paris Scholar Publishing)

DOI

10.14485/HBPR.1.5.1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this investigation was to delineate patterns of attrition among urban middle school students participating in a longitudinal study.

METHODS: We examined differences in demographic, psychosocial and behavioral characteristics across 3 waves of children attending 4 urban public schools.

RESULTS: Students who left after T1 were similar to those completing all surveys; those leaving after 2 surveys were similar to those completing all surveys except for reporting greater violence involvement. Students who in-migrated at T2 trended towards greater violence involvement at T2 which mitigated at T3. T3-entering students exhibited multiple differences from those completing all surveys.

CONCLUSIONS: Within such settings, out-migrating students may be similar to non-attriting students, whereas in-migrating students may have short-term differences.

Language: en