[The awareness and attitude of adolescents concerning healthy life-style]

The authorship's questionnaire "Awareness of adolescents about healthy lifestyle" was applied to carry out sociological survey. The sampling consisted of 183 teenagers aged 15-17 years studying in secondary schools of Ivanovo. It is established that the majority of adolescents are aware of healthy lifestyle. However, for for healthy life-style they take low preventive medical activity, presence of harmful habits, violations of rules of healthy diet and daily regimen, safe life activities, long-term use of gadgets with preference for passive pastime. Only one-third of respondents maintain active lifestyle that denotes the necessity to include these issues in programs of improving competence of adolescents in healthy lifestyle. The revealed absence of conviction in necessity to maintain one's own health and physical conditions conditions necessity to expand information that "unhealthiness" always means restriction of in active lifestyle, sport activities, career choice, future procreation and social activities. The revealed difficulties of observing day regimen, proper diet, sufficient staying outdoor and duration of computer use testify not only higher academic load and poor orderliness, but also weak motivation to observe healthy lifestyle that must be considered in motivation development. The choice of sources informing adolescents about healthy lifestyle issues is to consider that for adolescents the most frequent information sources are the Internet and parents. Besides, it is important to increase role of medical personnel of polyclinics and schools in increasing knowledge of adolescents about healthy lifestyle.