Kim, Bongjo
Choi, Sera
Kim, Hyeon Ji
Kim, Minjeong
Hong, Garam
Jo, Chae-Ku
Son, Minkook
Funding for this research was provided by:
Global Learning & Academic Research Institution for Master’s·PhD Students and Postdocs (G-LAMP) Program (RS-2025-25440216)
National Research Foundation of Korea (RS-2024-00342613)
Korea Health Industry Development Institute (RS-2025-02223073)
Article History
Received: 2 January 2026
Accepted: 10 April 2026
First Online: 18 April 2026
Declarations
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: The Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey (KYRBS) was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) until 2015. Since 2016, the survey has been exempt from IRB review as it is conducted as a government-approved statistical survey (Approval No. 117058) under the Bioethics and Safety Act.All procedures were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to participation in the survey. The present study used anonymized and publicly available data; therefore, additional informed consent was not required.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.