abstract background and purpose: priority health-risk behaviors, often are established during childhood and adolescence, extend into adulthood, and are interrelated and preventable. this study was conducted to determine and compare the prevalence of risky behaviors on both sexes of freshman students enrolled in tehran university, iran. materials and methods: this study was a descriptive-analyti...

background there are many risky behaviors that threat adolescents and must receive specific attention. research has shown that personality pattern behaviors have a significant relationship with risky behaviors. objectives the objective of this study was to clarify the role of personality pattern behaviors in risky behaviors of high school students in chabahar city. patients and methods three hu...

epidemiological studies and clinical findings have shown an association between trauma and dissociation; dissociative experiences are also more prevalent among select populations such as substance dependent individuals and criminal offenders. in the present non-systematic review, we explored the association between trauma, dissociation, and high-risk behaviors. we aimed to find if the presence ...

behavior refers to the actions made by organisms in conjunction with their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment. lots of types of behavior exist such as conscious or unconscious, voluntary or involuntary and overt or covert. childhood has a remarkable role on formation of human behavior in his later life which already has been pro...

background: intravenous drug users (ivdus) who share needles/syringes and practice sexual behaviors, are the most important group in the transmission of blood-borne infection diseases such as hepatitis c virus (hcv). therefore identification of prevalent high-risky behaviors among ivdus to detect the most route of transmission among them is essential to develop harm reduction programs among ivd...

conclusions parental style could play a different role in conducting risky behaviors among girls and boys. therefore, appropriate parental styles should be used in bringing up children based on their gender. background gender differences play an important role in risky behaviors such as drug use, of the youth. despite having a substantial youth population in the middle east north africa (mena) ...