Assessment of health risk behaviours and their interrelationships among young people from two counties of Romania

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

Weitere Titel
Bewertung gesundheitlichen Risikoverhaltens und deren Wechselbeziehungen zwischen jungen Menschen aus zwei Landkreisen in Rumänien
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Public Health ; 18 (2010) 4 ; 403-411

Klassifikation
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2010
Urheber
Lotrean, Lucia Maria
Laza, Valeria
Ionut, Carmen
Vries, Hein de

DOI
10.1007/s10389-010-0317-y
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203714
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Lotrean, Lucia Maria
  • Laza, Valeria
  • Ionut, Carmen
  • Vries, Hein de

Entstanden

  • 2010

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