Analysis On The Prevalence And Influence Factors Of Health Risk Behaviors Of University Students In Zhuhai,Guangdong

Objective: To study the status of health risk behaviors among university students in Zhuhai,Guangdong.To explore the influence factors on substance abuse,poor diet and weight loss behaviors,risky sexual behaviors and investigate the mental health situation on those who have substance abuse,unhealthy diet and weight loss behaviors,risky sexual behaviors,to provide the basis for relevant departments to develop interventions.Methods: A self-administered questionnaire serve was conducted among 5400 university students from three universities in Zhuhai city by using a stratified cluster random sampling method,1 Liberal Arts University,1 University of Science and Technology,and 1 Medical University separately.Unhealthy food and weight loss situation were investigated in 3545 university students.The database was established by using the database software Epidata3.1,and the data was checked timely.The results were analyzed with the SPSS20.0 software package.Results:(1)Addictive substance: 47.0% of university students tried to drink alcohol,the prevalence of current alcohol use,harmful drinking and heavy drinking was 46.5%,9.3% and 2.6% separately,6.5% of university students the first time to drink alcohol was before 14 years old;24.7% of university students tried to smoke,the prevalence of current smoking and often smoking was 10.7% and 5.7% separately,5.0% of university students the first time to smoke was before 14 years old.12.4% of university students had ever used sedative or hypnotic drug without the doctor's prescription.(2)Diet and weight loss: The prevalence of no breakfast was 23.9%,39.9% of university students ate breakfast every day,35.3% of university students had food preferences.In order to lose weight,16.0% of university students didn't eat food more than 24 hours,and 14.3% of university students used weight loss drugs,42.8% of university students by controlling diet and exercise.(3)Sexual behaviors: 26.1% of university students have had sexual behaviors,10.96% of university students had two or more partners,2.9% of university students had four or more sexual partners,2.5% of university students the first time to experience sexual intercourse was before 14 years old;Among those students who had experienced sexual intercourse,72.9% of university students used condoms in recent sexual intercourse,7.1% of university students had been subjected to force sexual behaviors,13.1% of male university students made their female partners unwanted pregnancy,5.4% of female university students had suffered unwanted pregnancy;17.8% of university students supported homosexual behaviors.The prevalence of male university students,nonmedical students and in poor school performance was high in many kinds of health risk behaviors.There were significant differences among the subjects in gender,school types,score level(Self feeling)and grade level.The scores of anxiety and depression in the health risk group were higher than those without health risk behaviors.Conclusions: The prevalence of addictive substance use,unhealthy diet behaviors,unhealthy weight loss and risky sexual behaviors among university students were still high in Zhuhai.Gender,specialties,grade,school performance,mental health and family factors were associated with the health risk behaviors of university students.There was a gap between consciousness and behaviors of health of university students.