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[Changes in risk behaviors according to gender in a cohort of high school students]
Alfredo Hidalgo-San Martín1, Bettylú Rasmussen-Cruz2, Eduardo Madrigal-de León3
1Ex jefe de la Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud del Adolescente (UIESSA), Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS).
Objective:
to analyze changes on risk behavior (RB) by gender in an adolescent student's cohort.
Methods:
online questionnaire based on YRBSS of CDC with 36 RB was applied in two periods (2003, 2005) to 115 students aged 15 to 19 from High School. Statistics: McNemar and binomial.
Results:
significant decrease in relation to RB frequency about suicide (general), carry weapons (general and men) and friends fights (general and women), significant increase of RB frequency about alcohol consumption (general and both genders), not quitting (men), non vegetable consumption (general), not condom use (general and women) not using contraceptives (general and women) and alcohol and drugs consumption in car (general). With inadequate exercise and there were contrary trends; with drugs use and sexual violence there was no change.
Conclusions:
adolescents from both genders start High School with similar profile of wide frequency of RB in both genders, there were only nine significant changes, and six did not have. Few changes by gender were observed, there was an increase in unsafe sex practices and alcohol consumption in women.
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