scholarly journals Religious Climate and Health Risk Behaviors in Sexual Minority Youths: A Population-Based Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark L. Hatzenbuehler ◽  
John E. Pachankis ◽  
Joshua Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Population Based Study ◽  
Climate And Health

scholarly journals HEALTH RISK BEHAVIOR OF ADOLESCENT SCHOLARS

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Nei Monteiro Barbosa ◽  
Cezar Augusto Casotti ◽  
Adriana Alves Nery
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significance Level

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to describe health risk behaviors among adolescents from secondary education in public schools in a city in Brazilian Northeast. Epidemiological cross-sectional, population-based study with a simple random sample. For the data, we used structured validated questionnaires. For data analysis, we used the chi-square Pearson test, with significance level of 5%. It has been found that physical inactivity is associated with the sex, age and studying shift. Tobacco consumption is significantly associated with sex, age, shift studying and alcohol consumption shift to studying, and age. As for poor dietary habits, consumption of fried foods is associated with shift in studying and sweets and sodas to shift on studying and age. Found a high prevalence of risk behaviors among adolescents, focused on policies needed health of this population.

Suicide and related health risk behaviors among school learners in South Africa

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. H. Shilubane ◽  
Rob Ruiter ◽  
B. H. W. van den Borne ◽  
P. S. Reddy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors
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