1. COVID-19 and High School Attendance: Modeling Latent Trajectories and the Influence of School Policies and Practices

School attendance is critical for educational success, youth development, and adolescent and adult health. However, rates of chronic school absenteeism have drastically increased in recent years, signaling an ongoing crisis of adolescent health and education in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. To inform tailored intervention, we aimed to identify distinct attendance trajectories between the 2016-2017 and 2020-2021 school years among a sample of youth enrolled in 5 public high schools in Los Angeles at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - Category: Child Development Authors: Tags: Platform Research Presentation: Charles E. Irwin, Jr. New Investigators Source Type: research