Table 1.

Reported problem behaviors among the 6-grade students in the last 6 months

	Boys (n = 363)		Girls (n = 422)
Problem Behaviors	N	%	N	%	p – value
Physical fight with a friend	154	42.5	112	26.5	< 0.01
Drank alcohol, beer, or wine	96	26.5	92	21.8	0.15
Smoked a cigarette	9	2.5	10	2.4	0.90
Pushed or carried any drugs	10	2.8	0	0	< 0.01
Carried a gun, knife, screwdriver or cutlass to use as a weapon	26	7.2	3	0.7	< 0.01
Had sex	8	2.2	2	0.5	0.03
Used marijuana or other illicit drugs	7	1.9	2	0.5	0.06