Abstract
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to describe health risk behaviors among adolescents from secondary education in public schools in a city in Brazilian Northeast. Epidemiological cross-sectional, population-based study with a simple random sample. For the data, we used structured validated questionnaires. For data analysis, we used the chi-square Pearson test, with significance level of 5%. It has been found that physical inactivity is associated with the sex, age and studying shift. Tobacco consumption is significantly associated with sex, age, shift studying and alcohol consumption shift to studying, and age. As for poor dietary habits, consumption of fried foods is associated with shift in studying and sweets and sodas to shift on studying and age. Found a high prevalence of risk behaviors among adolescents, focused on policies needed health of this population.
Highlights
Adolescence is a time of life marked by numerous biological, cognitive and social changes taking place simultaneously and contribute to building personality, being an important process of human development, chronologically understood as between 10 to 19 anos.[1,2]Because it is a full transformation process, with repercussions of varying scopes for life in society, adolescence is a period of physical vulnerability, psychologically and socially, whose complexity profits from the special attention from parents, teachers, professionals health and competent organizations.[3]Given the specificity of being a teenager, adolescence is a critical period where various habits and behaviors are established
Due to the importance of identifying health risk behaviors in Brazilian students, to plan, propose and implement actions to promote the health of this population and, considering the lack of data from the Northeast of Brazil, mainly in mid-sized municipalities, this study aimed to describe health risk behaviors of adolescent high school students of public schools in a city in northeastern Brazil
With regard to this study, the adolescents had high prevalence of physical inactivity in the three discussed aspects, corroborating the results found in students of other nationalities, as well as students of Brazilian capitals.[2,8,9]
Summary
Adolescence is a time of life marked by numerous biological, cognitive and social changes taking place simultaneously and contribute to building personality, being an important process of human development, chronologically understood as between 10 to 19 anos.[1,2]Because it is a full transformation process, with repercussions of varying scopes for life in society, adolescence is a period of physical vulnerability, psychologically and socially, whose complexity profits from the special attention from parents, teachers, professionals health and competent organizations.[3]Given the specificity of being a teenager, adolescence is a critical period where various habits and behaviors are established. Adolescence is a time of life marked by numerous biological, cognitive and social changes taking place simultaneously and contribute to building personality, being an important process of human development, chronologically understood as between 10 to 19 anos.[1,2]. Risky behavior adopted by adolescents can be understood as activities that may endanger health, such as alcohol consumption, smoking, poor eating habits, physical inactivity, unprotected sex, among others. This form of understanding, acts and positions itself towards the reality that is influenced by the family and social context, as a school, community, friends and the media. In view of the seriousness of these behaviors, it is important to identify and incorporate prevention and health promotion of adolescents early in order to avoid problems in adult life.[6]
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