Health-Risk Behaviors and Dating Violence Victimization: An Examination of the Associated Risk Behaviors Among Detained Female Youth

Health-risk behaviors among our nation's youth: United States, 1992.

This report presents national estimates of the prevalence of selected health risk behaviors among youth ages 12-21 years, by sex, Hispanic origin, and race for youth of non-Hispanic origin. Topics include: cigarette and other tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual experience, HIV/AIDS education, runaway and homeless experiences, violence, unintentional injury control, weight control, a...

Health risk behaviors in parentally bereaved youth.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether parentally bereaved offspring are more likely to engage in health risk behaviors than nonbereaved control offspring. DESIGN Controlled population-based study. SETTING Bereaved families were recruited from coroner records and by advertisement. Control families were recruited using random-digit dialing and by advertisement. PARTICIPANTS At 9.0 months after t...

cultural capital and high risk behaviors among youth

Risky music-listening behaviors and associated health-risk behaviors.

OBJECTIVE To examine, among adolescents and emerging adults attending inner-city lower education, associations between risky music-listening behaviors (from MP3 players and in discotheques and at pop concerts) and more traditional health-risk behaviors: substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs) and unsafe sexual intercourse. METHODS A total of 944 students in Dutch inner-c...

Forced sexual intercourse and associated health-risk behaviors among female college students in the United States.

This study analyzed data from the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) to assess the prevalence of lifetime rape among female college students and to examine the association between rape and health-risk behaviors. The NCHRBS used a mail questionnaire to assess health-risk behaviors among a nationally representative sample of undergraduate students. Twenty percent of female...