background family plays an important role in helping adolescent acquiring skills or strengthening their characters. objectives we aimed to evaluate the influences of family factors, risky and protective, on adolescent health-risk behavior (hrb). patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, students of high schools in kerman, iran at all levels participated, during november 2011 till dece...

Objective: This survey aimed at studying the effects of socioeconomic and family factors in adolescents’ tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse. Methods: Using multistage sampling, 3530 high school students were selected in Tehran, Iran. They completed the Iranian adolescents risk behavior scale questionnaire (IARS) and demographic questionnaire with the main focus on ...

Background: Human factors have the most significant effects on the occurrence of traffic accidents among the three factors of human, road, and vehicle. The driver is a significant traffic safety concern. Interventions that enhance driver’s safety are required. Risky behaviors of drivers on the road influence physical healthy and personality. The aim of this study is to report the protocol...

African Americans are disproportionally affected by HIV/AIDS, but little is known about the risky sexual behaviors of older African Americans. This cross-sectional, comparative, and descriptive study investigated the self-reported sexual behaviors of sexually active older African Americans. The nonrandom sample (N = 78) included single African American men (59%) and women (41%), 50-74 years of ...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to assess risky and protective listening behaviors of adolescent users of MP3 players and the association of these behaviors with demographic characteristics and frequency of use. METHODS In 2007, 1687 adolescents (12-19 years of age) in 68 classes in 15 Dutch secondary schools were invited to complete questionnaires about their music-listening behaviors. RESULTS . Ni...

BACKGROUND Health risk behaviors like substance use (alcohol, tobacco, soft/hard drugs) and risky sexual behavior become more prevalent in adolescence. Children with behavior problems are thought to be prone to engage in health risk behaviors later in life. It is, however, unclear which problems within the externalizing spectrum account for these outcomes. METHODS Three hundred and nine child...