Studying On The Prevalence And Influencing Factors Of Health Risk Behaviors Of Teenagers At School In Weifang City

BackgroundIn recent years, school teenagers with health risk behaviors,such as bad diet habit, lack of physical activity behavior, substance abuse, Internet addiction,and suicide are increasing rapidly.These behaviors have become a serious threat to the physical and mental health of teenagers. Numerous studies show that adolescent risk behaviors such as Internet addiction, lack of physical activity and poor eating habits, not only can lead to various harm behaviors, but also be closely related to some adult diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and so on. Among these behaviors, adolescent network addiction and all sorts of suicidal behavior are relatively serious health hazards. Teenagers are the future of our motherland, and their physical and mental health are very important. Therefore carrying out the survey about adolescent health risk behavior, could help us understand the characteristics of adolescent health risk behaviors and make effective interventions to reduce these behaviors, and to guide teenagers to set up the good life habit and improve their healthy psychological quality,furthermore to provide scientific basis for relevant policies and strategies of health, education and other departments.ObjectivesTo explore all sorts of behavior risk factors, and analyze the serious influencing factors of suicidal behavior and network addiction of adolescent health according epidemic status of school health risk behavior of teenagers of this survey in Weifang ciry, and to provide the right advice and the scientific evidence for relevant departments to formulate strategy.Methods In Weifang city, we use the stratified cluster sampling method, to seperate the investigation object into different layers of junior high school, high school and university.3800questionnaires were issued to the teenagers coming from4junior high schools,4high schools and2universities,which were seleted by random sampling. The investigators coming from the relevant staff who were professional trained issued the questionnaires to the unit at the break,one class as a unit. The questionnaires were answered by the students with the anonymous method.The unified questionnaire contents were input into the computer by double independent persons, and Epidata database was establish. Spss16.0statistical software package was used to be complete the Statistical analysisMain results(1)6.7%of teenagers often drink,20.8%of teenagers often eat sweet food,2.3%of teenagers often eat fast food,7.3%of teenagers often skip breakfast,18.3%of teenagers seldom drink milk,58.5%of teenagers have dietary bias,2.7%of teenagers lose weight in unhealth way.(2)61.5%of the teenagers lack physical exercise,6.3%of teenagers often surf on Internet,4.6%of teenagers often play computer games.(3)5.2%of the teenagers have experienced pedestrian violations,44.6%teenagers ride illegally,12.7%of teenagers went swimming or skating on unsafe places,17.1%of teenagers have been involved in the fight,6.5%of teenagers experienced physical violence,34.4%of teenagers experienced language violence,19.4%of teenagers suffered emotional neglect,19.8%of teenagers have suffered sexual harassment,7.6%of teenagers had suicidal thoughts,3.4%of teenagers had suicide plans,0.9%of teenagers had suicide attempts.(4)27.3%of teenagers have tried smoking,8.6%of teenagers are smoking,2.8%of teenagers are regular smokers,0.6%of teenagers are in serious smoking;58.1%of teenagers have tried drinking,22.2%of teenagers are drinking, of which,7.5%of teenagers with severe alcohol,10.7%of teenagers had drunk experience;6.5%of teenagers have taken tranquilizers and other substances,4%of teenagers have Internet addiction behavior..(5) There are differences between gender and school type among adolescent students. Factors affecting all kinds of suicidal behaviors and Internet addiction involve social, school and psychological factors, which are of relevance.ConclusionsThe prevalence of health risk behaviors of teenagers in Weifang city was higher, especially the suicidal behaviors and Internet addiction do great harm on young people. The influencing factors from society, school and psychological does not exist in isolation,which is correlated. We should carry out mental health, health education and life skills education, according to different characteristics of these dangerous behavior, to prevent and control health risk behaviors of teenagers.