@article{ref1,
title="Health behavior of schoolchildren in a metropolitan area of Madrid",
journal="Revista de sanidad e higiene publica",
year="1994",
author="Andradas Aragonés, V. and Fernández San Martín, I. M.",
volume="68",
number="1",
pages="203-212",
abstract="BACKGROUND: To describe health behavior of students about diet, alcohol and tobacco, dental-oral hygiene, leisure time activities and interpersonal relations. METHODS: 942 Students have been carried out. Children come from six schools of the town of Parla (in the south of Madrid). They are from 9 to 14 years old. The instruments have been made for this study, helping by teachers of EGB. RESULTS: 50% of the students doesn't eat any food at 12 o'clock, after drinking a glass of milk only at breakfast (8 o'clock). 10% never eats greens. 37% of the children in the upper level drinks alcohol sometimes and, in the same level, 12% smokes sometimes. Around 25% of children brush their teeth three times in the day. The students watch television three hours and half, means, in the day. The communication with the teacher is evaluated from &quot;not too bad&quot; to &quot;bad&quot; by 70% of the students of upper level. 42% and 39.4% of the children talks about abortion and contraceptives, respectively, with nobody. CONCLUSIONS: In general, girls have better habits than boys. Only exercise is more prevalent in the boys than in the girls.<p /><p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="0034-8899",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}