Behavioral Health Risk Factors Among School Children Aged 14-18
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https://doi.org/10.53555/hsn.v2i3.291Keywords:
Health risk factors,, students, CINDI, healthy lifestyleAbstract
The current study is a part of “Healthy children in healthy families” project – children component of CINDI Program. The objective is to study the impact of behavioral health risk factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, low physical activity) among adolescents aged 14-18 years. Material and methods: a total of 3369 students (49.4% boys and 50.6% girls) from 36 randomly selected schools in 4 Bulgarian districts are covered. An individual interview by standard questionnaire is performed. Results show that each third student is a regular smoker, daily alcohol users are 10.7% of boys and 4.2% of girls, and 1/3 of adolescents demonstrate low level of physical activity and unhealthy diet.
Conclusion: The presented risk profile has an important role in the pathogenesis of numerous chronic non-communicable diseases later in life. Тhe implementation of activities focused on health promotion and healthy life style changes even from early childhood, is of extreme importance.
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