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Assessment of health risk behaviours and their interrelationships among young people from two counties of Romania
- Source :
- Zeitschrift Fur Gesundheitswissenschaften, Journal of Public Health
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer-Verlag, 2010.
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Abstract
- Aim: The first goal of this study was to assess the prevalence of different health risk behaviours among Romanian young people. Next, the interrelationship between different health risk behaviours as well as age and gender differences with respect to health risk behaviours were examined. Subjects and methods: Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a sample of 1,598 junior high school students, senior high school students and university students from urban and rural areas of two counties of Romania. Results: The results showed that 31% of junior high school students, 59.7% of senior high school students and 64.8% of university students reported more than one risk behaviour. Many of the risk behaviours were likely to correlate with each other and the strongest correlation was found between smoking, alcohol-related behaviour and precocious sexual intercourse. Factor analysis revealed that among junior high school students all health risk behaviours loaded on one factor. In senior high school students and university students the risk behaviours split into two factors, based probably on their frequency and severity. Factor 1 comprised smoking, alcohol-related behaviours as well as precocious sexual intercourse, while factor 2 included less common behaviours: violence, delinquency and illicit drug use. No gender differences were observed regarding the relationship between health risk behaviours. Conclusion: The results stress the importance of developing prevention programmes among Romanian youth for the behaviours discussed. Further research is needed to identify how to best offer these programmes: as stand-alone programmes or as an integrated set of programmes and whether the same approach has to be taken for younger and older adolescents.
- Subjects :
- Poison control
Secondary education
Secondary Education Sector Lower Level
pupil
Suicide prevention
Health risk behaviours
Occupational safety and health
Sociology & anthropology
tobacco consumption
prevention
health behavior
empirisch-quantitativ
Medical Sociology
gender
quantitative empirical
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Romanian adolescents
Health Policy
risk behavior
empirisch
Jugendlicher
Human factors and ergonomics
health
Rumänien
Risikoverhalten
Health education
sex behavior
Gesundheitsverhalten
ddc:300
Schüler
Original Article
Gesundheitspolitik
ddc:301
Student
medicine.medical_specialty
alcohol consumption
Bildungswesen Sekundarstufe I
education
Prävention
Tabakkonsum
Alkoholkonsum
Environmental health
Injury prevention
medicine
health education
Drogenkonsum
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Health policy
Bildungswesen Sekundarstufe II
drug use
Sekundarbildung
business.industry
Romania
anwendungsorientiert
Public health
Gesundheit
Geschlecht
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Gesundheitserziehung
applied research
adolescent
Sexualverhalten
Schülerin
female pupil
business
empirical
Secondary Education Sector Upper Level
Medizinsoziologie
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16132238 and 09431853
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zeitschrift Fur Gesundheitswissenschaften
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f03036efbfcd845056c2c51057c3b5c6