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Citation

Lewis DF, Goodhart FW, Burns WD. J. Am. Coll. Health 1996; 45(3): 119-126.

Affiliation

New Jersey Collegiate Consortium for Health in Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8952204

Abstract

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Youth Risk
Behavior Survey to measure the health risk behavior of the nation's high school students and to measure
progress toward meeting the national health objectives for the year 2000. The survey was adapted for
college students and pilot tested in spring 1993 in 18 4-year public and private colleges in New Jersey.
In this article, the authors summarize results from this survey regarding unmarried respondents' risk
behavior, including sexual behavior, use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, and behaviors that may lead
to intentional and unintentional injuries. These findings, when compared with the relevant national health
objectives, suggest that New Jersey college students will meet the health objectives regarding tobacco
and cocaine use but will not meet national targets set for condom and birth control use, alcohol and
marijuana use, and seatbelt and bicycle helmet use.


Language: en

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