Prevalence of health-risk behaviors among teen girls in Southeastern Iran

Autor: Fatemeh Rakhshani, Fariba Shahraki-Sanavi, Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, Mahdi Mohammadi, Abdurrashid Khazaei Feizabad
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Electronic Physician
Electronic Physician, Vol 10, Iss 6, Pp 6988-6996 (2018)
ISSN: 2008-5842
Popis: Background: Investigating female adolescents' health status is essential because of their two-fold role within the health of the community and the impending generations' health. Objective: The present study aimed to determine the prevalence of health-risk behaviors among teen girls in Southeastern Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on a sample of 457 tenth grade female adolescents in four public high schools in Zahedan in Southeastern Iran, in 2015. First, high schools were randomly selected; then, all students in Grade 10 were enrolled in the study through a census. Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire of the health-risk behaviors with the content validity ratio (CVR) of 0.80, the content validity index (CVI) of 0.88 and Cronbach’s α score of 0.71. The Results were analyzed using ANOVA test with SPSS-15. Results: The highest prevalence rate of health-risk behaviors of students included: failing to drink natural fruit juice (53.1%), failing to wear a seat belt (43.0%), sitting in a car while the driver is sending message or emails (43.0%), failing to drink milk daily (36.0%), lack of minimum daily physical activity 37.0%, and watching TV more than 3 hours a day (35.0%). On average, the number of health-risk behaviors among under study students was 1.47. Additionally, the ANOVA showed a statistically significant difference in the average number of healthrisk behaviors of adolescents in families with high economic status, those who never talked with their parents or those who had physical relations with the opposite sex (p
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