KMID : 1130320060490101042
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Korean Journal of Pediatrics 2006 Volume.49 No. 10 p.1042 ~ p.1049
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Health and risk taking behaviors of freshmen in college
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Ko Hong-Ki
Choung Ji-Tae Yoo Young Lee Yoon Han Jae-Joon Lee Kee-Hyoung Park Sang-Hee
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Abstract
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Purpose:This study was conducted to survey the preliminary data on risk behaviors and to identify the factors that prevent risk-behaviors in late adolescence.
Methods:Freshmen(n=1,297) beginning the first semester in Korea University, Seoul, Korea completed self-administered risk behavior questionnaires, comprising 5 domains : demographics, smoking, drinking, drug abuse and sexual behavior.
Results:The rate of smoking experience was higher in people having friends who smoke and the predictors of transition to current smoking were male gender, urban residence, friends¡¯ smoking, and nicotine dependence. The rate of high risk drinking was higher among students who are male and who had experience of heavy episodic drinking. The study group showed a low prevalence of narcotic users, but two-thirds of students could get medicine easily without prescriptions. The prevalence of sexual experience was 6.5 percent, and the sexual education was not a predictor of contraceptive behavior. The prevalence of homosexuality was 1.6 percent, and the rate of mostly heterosexuality was higher in female students.
Conclusion:The main targets of youth health education should be campaigns aimed at atcessation of reinforcing risk behaviors and the development of a surveillance system for the prevention of chronic disease. These results can be used to find risk factors of health-risk behaviors among late adolescents.
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KEYWORD
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risk taking behaviors, Adolescent, Smoking, Alcohol drinking, Drug abuse, Sexual behavior
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