Health risk behaviors in teenagers according to gender, age and socioeconomic status

Autor: Oldemar Mazzardo, Priscila Iumi Watanabe, Rafael Vieira Martins, Michael Pereira da Silva, Wagner de Campos, Roseane de Fátima Guimarães
Jazyk: portugalština
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Medicina, Vol 49, Iss 4 (2016)
ISSN: 2176-7262
0076-6046
Popis: Study Design: Cross sectional descriptive school-based study. Study objetive: To identify the isolated and simultaneous proportions of Health Risk Behaviors (HRB) of adolescents from public schools in the city of Curitiba-PR independently of gender, age and economic status. Methodology: The entire sample consisted of 996 secondary and high school students who concluded the study requirements. Gender, age and socioeconomic status were determined by a demographic questionnaire. The Portuguese version of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the Simplified Questionnaire for Food Consumption Assessment Related to Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents, the Sedentary Activities Questionnaire for Adolescents and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (short version) computed the risk behavior variables. Differences between groups was determined by Chi-square tests with critical value of p
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