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

Table

Unit %

Academic Year 2022-2023 Academic Year 2021-2022 Academic Year 2018-2019 Academic Year 2015-2016
Province
New Brunswick
24.9
24.5 - 25.2
22.2
22.4
20.9
Health zones
Zone 1 - Moncton and South-East Area
23.1
22.5 - 23.7
21.8
22.3
19.2
Zone 2 - Fundy Shore and Saint John Area
27.7
26.9 - 28.4
24.8
24.9
22.5
Zone 3 - Fredericton and River Valley Area
27.4
26.7 - 28.2
23.6
24.1
23.6
Zone 4 - Madawaska and North-West Area
18.0
16.8 - 19.2
14.9
13.1
15.3
Zone 5 - Restigouche Area
23.6
21.6 - 25.6
22.1
22.7
20.1
Zone 6 - Bathurst and Acadian Peninsula Area
22.1
20.9 - 23.3
17.1
17.8
16.9
Zone 7 - Miramichi Area
24.8
23.4 - 26.3
22.9
22.4
23.1
Communities
Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
24.7
22.9 - 26.5
19.6
18.7
20.3
Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
23.5
21.5 - 25.5
23.2
24.9
22.5
Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
23.2
20.6 - 25.9
20.9
22.7
18.6
Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
17.5
14.7 - 20.3
16.3
19.9
13.4
Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
24.0
20.8 - 27.2
23.9
22.7
21.5
Dieppe and Memramcook
14.6
13.3 - 16.0
12.9
14.2
10.1
Douglas, Saint Marys, Doaktown Area
29.9
25.4 - 34.4
23.0
22.6
26.1
Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
16.5
14.9 - 18.2
13.3
12.7
14.0
Florenceville-Bristol, Woodstock, Wakefield Area
25.9
24.1 - 27.7
22.7
23.3
21.7
Fredericton
25.3
24.2 - 26.4
21.4
21.4
19.5
Grand Bay-Westfield, Westfield, Greenwich Area
n/a
20.6
21.6
11.3
Grand Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
22.2
20.0 - 24.4
19.0
17.9
18.4
Hillsborough, Riverside-Albert, Alma Area
30.2
24.7 - 35.6
29.7
26.7
18.2
Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin and Grimmer
12.5
9.5 - 15.5
11.7
9.3
11.5
Minto, Chipman, Cambridge-Narrows Area
31.9
28.2 - 35.7
27.1
29.7
28.8
Miramichi, Rogersville, Blackville Area
24.7
23.1 - 26.3
23.1
22.9
23.8
Moncton
22.8
21.9 - 23.8
22.2
21.4
19.1
Nackawic, McAdam, Canterbury Area
26.7
23.2 - 30.3
27.2
22.4
23.3
Neguac, Alnwick, Esgenoopetitj Area
26.0
21.3 - 30.6
21.7
17.5
17.2
New Maryland, Kingsclear, Lincoln Area
26.4
22.5 - 30.4
23.0
25.4
29.2
Oromocto, Gagetown, Fredericton Junction Area
31.9
30.0 - 33.8
28.1
29.9
29.9
Perth-Andover, Plaster Rock, Tobique Area
35.4
31.8 - 39.0
29.7
30.2
26.2
Quispamsis, Rothesay, Hampton Area
25.2
23.9 - 26.6
23.2
21.8
21.1
Riverview and Coverdale
29.0
27.0 - 31.0
25.2
27.7
22.4
Sackville, Dorchester, Port Elgin Area
29.8
26.6 - 33.0
25.4
23.6
23.7
Saint John, Simonds and Musquash
28.0
26.9 - 29.1
24.8
26.3
23.2
Salisbury and Petitcodiac
30.4
27.8 - 33.0
29.3
33.2
29.6
Shediac, Beaubassin East and Cap-Pelé
21.1
18.7 - 23.6
19.2
19.6
14.8
Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
22.3
19.2 - 25.4
15.2
16.0
16.8
St. George, Grand Manan, Blacks Harbour Area
29.4
26.0 - 32.7
28.9
29.3
23.7
St. Stephen, Saint Andrews, Campobello Island Area
30.2
27.7 - 32.8
27.2
23.4
24.5
Sussex, Norton, Sussex Corner Area
29.9
27.6 - 32.3
25.7
26.7
23.4
Tracadie and Saint-Isidore
20.0
17.7 - 22.3
13.9
15.8
15.5
School districts
Anglophone East School District
27.1
26.3 - 28.0
25.5
26.0
22.8
Anglophone North School District
28.3
27.0 - 29.5
25.1
26.6
26.5
Anglophone South School District
28.0
27.2 - 28.7
25.0
25.2
22.8
Anglophone West School District
27.6
26.9 - 28.4
24.1
24.7
24.1
Anglophone sector
27.7
27.3 - 28.1
24.8
25.4
23.7
District scolaire francophone Nord-Est
20.1
19.0 - 21.2
16.5
16.3
14.9
District scolaire francophone Nord-Ouest
16.5
15.3 - 17.8
13.5
11.6
13.8
District scolaire francophone Sud
16.9
16.0 - 17.8
16.1
15.6
12.8
Francophone sector
17.8
17.2 - 18.4
15.7
15.1
13.7
Grades
Grades 6 to 8
23.0
22.5 - 23.5
21.0
20.8
17.6
Grades 9 to 12
26.3
25.8 - 26.7
23.1
23.6
23.1
Gender
Woman/Girl
23.8
23.2 - 24.3
21.0
n/a
n/a
Man/Boy
22.7
22.2 - 23.2
19.4
n/a
n/a
Non-binary
50.8
48.9 - 52.6
49.2
n/a
n/a
Sex at birth
Female
26.6
26.1 - 27.1
24.5
21.9
n/a
Male
22.8
22.3 - 23.3
19.5
22.9
n/a
Sexual identity
Minority sexual identity
39.0
38.1 - 39.8
37.1
n/a
n/a
Heterosexual
21.3
20.9 - 21.7
18.0
n/a
n/a
LGBTQ2+ Status
LGBTQ2+ person
39.0
38.1 - 39.9
37.2
n/a
n/a
Non LGBTQ2+ person
21.2
20.8 - 21.6
17.9
n/a
n/a
Race
White
24.1
23.7 - 24.5
21.3
n/a
n/a
South Asian
22.5
19.3 - 25.8
17.6
n/a
n/a
Other
25.5
23.0 - 28.0
23.9
n/a
n/a
Middle Eastern
23.2
20.8 - 25.7
19.4
n/a
n/a
Latino
27.0
24.2 - 29.7
25.4
n/a
n/a
East/Southeast Asian
24.8
23.1 - 26.5
22.0
n/a
n/a
Black
28.2
26.4 - 29.9
24.6
n/a
n/a
Indigenous identity
Indigenous
33.7
32.1 - 35.3
30.6
30.7
30.2
Non-Indigenous
23.5
23.1 - 23.9
21.3
21.5
20.3
Food poverty
Food poverty
51.9
50.4 - 53.4
42.3
n/a
n/a
No food poverty
22.8
22.4 - 23.1
20.5
n/a
n/a
Immigrant
Immigrants
21.4
20.4 - 22.4
20.0
20.0
n/a
Non-immigrants
25.3
25.0 - 25.7
22.4
22.6
n/a
Special needs
Has a special need
35.7
35.0 - 36.4
32.9
n/a
n/a
No special need
19.0
18.6 - 19.4
16.4
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 low 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 low 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 lower 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

Lower is better

NBHC code

SH_MEFLO_1

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