The Caribbean Healthy Lifestyles Program: Reducing Risk and Increasing Protective Factors in Caribbean Youth
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Methods: Results of a survey of 62 participants (40 females, 22 males), aged 13 to 20, from seven different countries of the Caribbean community participating in the CHLP, were analyzed. Participants rated changes due to the CHLP in nineteen different lifestyle variables targeted over the course of the program on a 1 (made it much worse) through 3 (did not affect it) to 5 (improved it a lot) Likert-scale.
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Reducing risk, increasing protective factors: findings from the Caribbean Youth Health Survey.
PURPOSE To identify the prevalence of health-compromising behaviors, and the risk and protective factors associated with them among youth in the Caribbean, and to predict the likelihood of these outcomes given the presence or absence of the risk and protective factors. METHODS Analyses were done on the results of a 1997-98 survey of over 15,500 young people in nine countries of the Caribbean ...
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