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Disabilities Awareness Week

Sustainable Development Goals and YOUth

Children's Day: Key issues affecting our children in their communities

Poll to co-design a new youth skills service

Reimagine Education with NSSC and UNICEF (Results to PM Andrew Holness' Education Transformation Commission)

Distance learning (Ministry of Education, Youth & Information)

School suspensions poll (for National Secondary Students' Council)

Sexual health education in schools (HFLE) with JYAN

Action against violence in schools

#ENDviolence in Schools

Child Month: Mental health poll with Jamaica Observer

Poll: Advertising unhealthy foods to children (Conducted for Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network and Healthy Caribbean Coalition)

Poll on Government's School Nutrition Policy, conducted with JYAN

MOHW poll to name new mental health campaign

Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines

Voting to name Mental Health Chatline

Mental health chatline name suggestions

Nutritional behaviours among Jamaican youth

Impact of COVID-19 on eating and exercise habits (conducted for UNICEF)

World AIDS Day Quiz with UNAIDS

COVID-19 regional poll 2: personal impact

COVID-19 regional poll 1: national response

CoronaVirus Information Centre

NFPB sexual and reproductive health

Suicide Prevention Bot – World Mental Health Day

Ministry of Health & Wellness Anxiety Test

HIV & sexual health

Adolescent and Youth Mental Health

Youth Mental Health and Suicide

Safer Internet Poll 2023 with Flow

Global cyberbullying poll

Social media influencers

U-Report Safer Internet Day contest with FLOW

Mental Health and Social Media

Safety & security

Child Month: Violence poll with Jamaica Observer

Spotlight Initiative - domestic abuse in COVID-19

Human Rights Day on December 10

Corporal Punishment (Office of the Children's Advocate)

Human trafficking

Volunteer for summer camps for children in ZOSO communities

Women's Day 2019

July 30 - World Day against Trafficking in People

Road Safety in Jamaica

Exploring the issue of crime in Jamaica

Youth Participation

Constitutional reform poll: Should Jamaica replace the king?

#YoungVoicesOfChange U-Report poll for EU-LAC Summit

World Children's Day 2021

Health

Nutritional behaviours among Jamaican youth

July 23, 2021

909

RESPONDERS

7%

RESPONSE RATE

25%

189

75%

571

TOTAL RESPONDERS

1

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is partnering with U-Report to help improve health and nutrition for young people. To participate reply YES or NO

909 responded out of 13,108 polled

2

Do you look for healthy options when purchasing food and drink. Reply YES or NO

777 responded out of 824 polled

3

Are you aware of or do you read the nutritional facts on the labels of drinks and snacks you eat. Reply YES or NO

753 responded out of 777 polled

4

[Those who answered NO to Q3] Please tell us why you do not read them. Reply A for I do not feel the need to B for I have never been encouraged to C for I do not understand them

209 responded out of 225 polled

5

Do you think there should be warning labels such as HIGH IN FATS or HIGH IN SUGARS on the front of food items. Reply YES or NO

715 responded out of 738 polled

6

If the food items were labelled in this way would it influence your choice? Reply YES or NO

700 responded out of 715 polled

7

Do you support government restrictions on sugar sweetened beverages and other unhealthy food items sold in schools. Reply YES or NO

651 responded out of 662 polled

U-Matter: U-Report Mental Health Chatline launched

I am that happy person who also happens to have depression

Kyle Nunes: “My generation can support one another”

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