Across the reported measures, analysis indicates attitudes to school, views on neighbourhood and life at home, physical health, and mental health and wellbeing differ by stage, sex and deprivation.
This statistical publication provides information on the first Health and Wellbeing Census 2021/22 undertaken by local authorities (LAs) between October 2021 and June 2022.
Across the reported measures, analysis indicates attitudes to school, views on neighbourhood and life at home, physical health, and mental health and wellbeing differ by stage, sex and deprivation.
Positive perceptions decrease with pupil stage, particularly up to S4. Girls have less positive perceptions than boys across aspects of life from perceptions of school and pressure of school work, feeling positive about their future, being worried about things in their life, perceptions of their body, sleep, diet, physical activity, having trusted adults they can talk to, and across the range of mental health and wellbeing measures.
This difference is also replicated with those in the most deprived areas feeling less positive across attitudes to school, life at home, having a trusted adult they can talk to, physical activity and sleep, mental health and wellbeing and confidence, with higher scores on loneliness and worrying about a lot about things in their life.