Are American Indian/Alaska Native Adolescent Health Behaviors Different? A Review of AI/AN Youth Involved in Native STAND Curriculum, 2014-2017 United States.

Health behaviors related to sex, substance, violence, and self-harm, are at least as common for AI/AN
youth as those observed in other US teens. Future research should consider similarities and differences in health profiles of AI/AN youth when designing interventions that affect them. Further, our findings underscore the need for culturally relevant curricula like native STAND, not because their health behavior is different, but because their socio-ecologic environment is different.