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Students in grades 6 to 12 who have a high level of mental fitness

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Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
19.5
19.2 - 19.8
22.1
22.8
25.1
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
20.8
20.2 - 21.4
22.5
23.7
28.1
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
17.1
16.5 - 17.7
20.0
20.9
23.3
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
17.7
17.1 - 18.4
20.9
21.2
22.7
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
24.7
23.3 - 26.0
29.0
28.5
29.5
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
21.4
19.4 - 23.4
23.2
22.7
25.9
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
22.2
21.0 - 23.3
25.0
26.9
26.6
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
19.2
17.9 - 20.6
22.2
21.5
21.4
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
20.8
19.1 - 22.5
23.9
24.9
27.7
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
20.9
19.0 - 22.9
20.9
21.3
23.5
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
23.5
20.8 - 26.1
24.2
22.5
29.8
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
20.4
17.4 - 23.3
24.3
28.9
28.4
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
18.5
15.6 - 21.5
21.7
23.0
22.0
Dieppe and Memramcook
28.9
27.1 - 30.7
31.7
33.5
38.0
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
19.2
15.4 - 23.1
20.3
23.9
22.0
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
26.2
24.3 - 28.2
30.4
29.6
32.4
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
20.2
18.6 - 21.9
22.0
21.0
25.1
Fredericton
19.0
18.0 - 20.0
22.8
23.1
26.4
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
25.8
30.9
33.6
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
21.1
19.0 - 23.2
25.5
22.9
23.8
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
12.5
8.5 - 16.4
8.5
14.0
20.4
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
27.7
23.6 - 31.9
31.3
30.2
33.6
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
11.8
9.2 - 14.4
17.3
19.4
20.4
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
19.2
17.7 - 20.6
22.9
21.6
20.7
Moncton
20.2
19.3 - 21.0
22.5
24.9
29.6
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
19.9
16.7 - 23.1
19.0
22.5
22.3
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
20.0
15.6 - 24.4
16.2
20.6
27.5
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
20.6
16.9 - 24.2
22.3
21.6
20.5
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
14.2
12.8 - 15.7
16.8
16.7
16.3
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
8.5
6.4 - 10.5
14.6
15.5
17.7
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
17.4
16.3 - 18.6
21.8
21.5
23.3
Riverview and Coverdale
14.8
13.3 - 16.4
16.8
16.5
20.7
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
16.3
13.7 - 18.9
19.4
19.9
23.5
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
17.4
16.4 - 18.3
18.6
21.0
23.0
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
15.3
13.3 - 17.3
15.4
14.7
16.5
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
25.4
22.8 - 28.0
28.4
25.5
35.3
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
22.4
19.4 - 25.3
24.9
33.8
23.5
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
16.6
13.9 - 19.3
19.5
17.8
20.8
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
15.9
13.8 - 17.9
22.7
21.8
25.6
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
15.7
13.9 - 17.6
18.8
17.5
22.3
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
25.7
23.2 - 28.2
27.6
26.0
26.3
School districts
Anglophone East School District
16.8
16.1 - 17.5
18.4
19.7
23.1
Anglophone North School District
16.4
15.4 - 17.4
19.3
19.2
20.0
Anglophone South School District
16.8
16.2 - 17.4
19.8
20.3
22.8
Anglophone West School District
17.4
16.8 - 18.1
20.4
20.9
22.3
Anglophone sector
16.9
16.6 - 17.3
19.6
20.3
22.4
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
23.8
22.6 - 24.9
26.0
27.6
27.7
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
26.4
24.9 - 27.9
30.8
29.9
30.8
District scolaire francophone Sud
27.1
26.1 - 28.1
29.0
30.0
36.2
Francophone sector
26.0
25.3 - 26.6
28.4
29.2
32.1
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
21.9
21.4 - 22.4
24.1
25.3
30.6
Grades 9 to 12
17.8
17.4 - 18.2
20.7
21.1
21.4
Gender
Woman/Girl
21.1
20.6 - 21.6
23.7
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
19.5
19.0 - 20.0
22.9
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
6.6
5.7 - 7.6
6.1
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
19.7
19.2 - 20.1
21.7
24.6
n/a
Male
19.4
18.9 - 19.8
22.8
21.0
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
11.4
10.8 - 11.9
11.3
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
21.3
20.9 - 21.7
24.9
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
11.3
10.7 - 11.9
11.3
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
21.4
21.0 - 21.8
24.9
n/a
n/a
Race
White
19.8
19.4 - 20.2
22.7
n/a
n/a
South Asian
26.8
23.3 - 30.3
26.1
n/a
n/a
Other
18.4
16.2 - 20.7
20.3
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
22.0
19.7 - 24.4
26.7
n/a
n/a
Latino
19.0
16.7 - 21.4
23.7
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
17.5
16.0 - 19.0
20.5
n/a
n/a
Black
18.4
16.9 - 19.9
20.1
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
14.3
13.1 - 15.4
14.7
16.5
16.3
Non-Indigenous
20.4
20.0 - 20.8
22.9
23.6
25.6
Food poverty
Food poverty
8.6
7.8 - 9.5
11.9
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
20.3
20.0 - 20.7
23.1
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
21.0
20.0 - 22.0
24.3
24.7
n/a
Non-immigrants
19.3
19.0 - 19.6
21.9
22.7
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
13.2
12.7 - 13.6
14.1
n/a
n/a
No special need
23.0
22.5 - 23.4
26.5
n/a
n/a
n/a = Not applicable / not available
S = Data suppressed due to confidentiality requirements and/or small sample size

About

This indicator is the percentage of students in grades 6 to 12 who have a high mental fitness score. Students are given a 'total mental fitness score' based on their responses to 18 individual questions, and a cutoff is used to identify students with a high mental fitness score.

Source

New Brunswick Health Council, Student Wellness Survey - Grades 6-12

Calculations

This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of respondents who have a total mental fitness score higher than a specified cutoff by the number of respondents who described their feelings and ideas for at least 9 of the following 18 questionnaire items: I feel I do things well at school, my teachers like me and care about me, I feel free to express myself at home, I feel my teachers think I am good at things, I like to spend time with my parents, I feel free to express myself with my friends, I feel I do things well at home, my parents like me and care about me, I feel I have a choice about when and how to do my schoolwork, I feel my parents think that I am good at things, I like to be with my teachers, I feel I have a choice about which activities to do with my friends, I feel I do things well when I am with my friends, my friends like me and care about me, I feel free to express myself at school, I feel my friends think I am good at things, I like to spend time with my friends and I feel like I have a choice about when and how to do my household chores. The response options for these 18 items are: : really false for me, sort of false for me, sort of true for me and really true for me.

Notes

Users are advised to exercise caution if comparing data from the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area to other New Brunswick communities. The data for the community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area is based on students in grades 6 to 8, while data from the other communities are based on students in grades 6 to 12. Survey results are assigned to communities based on the location of the school. The community of Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area does not have any schools with grades 9 to 12.

Unit

%

Interpretation

Higher is better

NBHC code

SH_MEFHI_1

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