Perceived peer norms, health risk behaviors, and clustering of risk behaviors among Palestinian 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

Cultural Capital and High Risk Behaviors Among Youth

High risk behaviors increase the likelihood of destructive physical, psychological and social consequences for the individual. These behaviors are evident among adolescents who are extremely dependent on each other and follow their peers' patterns. Moreover, sexual risk-taking has been recently highlighted as a reason for unplanned pregnancy, infectious diseases and HIV (1). Cultural capital, a...

Dimensions of risk behaviors among American Indian youth.

OBJECTIVE To explore the covariation of risk behaviors in a national sample of American Indian reservation-based youth using listwise principal components factor analysis and to determine how these risk behaviors may vary by age and sex. DESIGN Analysis of data from the National Indian Adolescent Health Survey, a validated anonymous self-report questionnaire of 162 items addressing various he...