TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Study on health related behaviors and its protective factors of junior middle school students in 4 cities of China
JO  - Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi
A1  - Tian, Ben-chun
A1  - Zhang, Weigang
A1  - Qian, Ling
A1  - Lv, Shu-hong
A1  - Cheng, Yu-lan
A1  - Zhang, Ji-bin
A1  - Wang, Zhi-Zhong
A1  - Tian, Xiang-yang
A1  - Xiong, Guang-lian
A1  - Yan, Wei-hong
A1  - Zhang, Xin-wei
SP  - 107
EP  - 111
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To provide accurate data on health related behaviors and protective factors among students in middle schools in China, for developing priorities, programs and policies on health education. METHODS: We used a standard scientific sample selection process developed by American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct the questionnaire survey among middle schools from four cities--Beijing, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Urumchi. RESULTS: Data were found as: 3.2% of students are overweight; 25.3% of students rarely washing hands before eating at school, 20.5% of the students had seriously injured in the past 12 months, 30.4% of male students having had physical fighting, 17.1% of the students having serious attempted suicide, 29.7% of the students ever tried or experimented cigarette smoking, 13.0% having drunk from alcohol and 14.5% having been offered or selling drugs during the past 30 days, 78.9% were in an insufficient amount of physical activity and only 14.3% often used seat belt when riding in a car. CONCLUSIONS: There were many problems on health related behaviors among middle school students in these four cities, especially on hygiene, physical activities, psychological situation, smoking and drinking etc. It is absolutely necessary to develop health education for children and adolescence to promote their healthy behaviors and lifestyle.<p />  <p>Language: zh</p>
LA  - zh
SN  - 0254-6450
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -