has been shown to be associated with other health behaviors among youth. Participants were able to opt out of the scale regarding either parent if the scale was not applicable; 3044(81 females and 1996(76 males, provided information on both mother and father-adolescent relationship quality Items were rated on a 5-point Likert scale(strongly disagree to strongly agree) and we divided the sum by 9 to give a mean score ranging from 1.0 to 5.0 with a higher score representing higher quality of the parent adolescent relationship. No established cut-points exist for this scale. We dichotomized mean scores into high and low quality relationship using the cut-point 24 for high quality relationship based on a priori classification that agreement with most items would suggest a high relationship quality