Study On The Prevalence And Determinants Of Health Risk Behaviors Of Junior High School Students In Yiyang City

Objective:To study the status and epidemiological characteristics of adolescent health risk behaviour among junior high school students in Yiyang, Hunan Province. Exploring the correlations between emotional intelligence, negative life events and health risk behaviour, and determinants of health risk behaviour. To provide basis of health intervention measures.Method: 476 students were selected by using a cluster random sampling method from 2 schools in Yiyang city. A self-filled questionnaire survey was conducted among them, include social demographic characteristics, health risk behaviours, emotional intelligence scale and adolescent self-rating life events check-list. Epidata 3.2 and SPSS 13.0 package were used in analyzing.Result:(1).458 returns were valid with a valid rate of 96.22%. 233 (50.9%) were male and 225 (49.1%) were female, their average age is 12.49±0.695. (2).89.01% students have one or more health risk behaviours.9.00% students often drank soda,22.00% person often ate sweet food,6.80% people often ate western-style fast food,17.0% drink milk occationally,3.5% of people seldom ate breakfast,64.50% people junk food,2.0% had unhealthy weight control behaviors.72.90% people lack of physical exercise,20.40% people watch TV too often,37.90% people doing homework over 4h/d,27.90% played computer games frequently.28.40% person regular online.77.30% people had traffic violations,22.80% people had non-security swimming behavior.36.30% people had fights,9.10% people suffered body violence,49.70% suffered words violence,25.80% had suffered emotional neglect,14.00% had suffered sexual harassment,13.80% had suicidal ideation,3.90% people had suicide plan,2.00% had attempted suicide.18.50% people try to smoke,57.30% used to drink,2.00% people who had drug abuse like sleeping pills etc.16.50% people had Internet addiction,10.80%,2.60% people contacted with gambling, pornographic books. (3). Lack of physical exercise, regular playing video games and regular on Internet, traffic violations, unsafe swimming, fight, encounter sexual harassment, try smoking, alcohol contact, Internet addiction, once gambling and so on, many kinds of health risk behaviors are different in gender, except for lack of exercise behavior, boys' health risk behaviors incidence above girls of general. Students with poor schoolperformance, show a higher rates of health risk behaviors such as lack of physical exercise, regular playing video games and regular on Internet, traffic violations, fight, encounter sexual harassment, suicidal plan, trying to smoking and Internet addiction. Middle-school students whose mother degree is high, seldom drink milk, traffic violations and try to smoking behavior report rate is low. (4) In Single factor analysis, good emotional intelligence is a protection factor of lack physical exercise behavior, traffic violations and violent; negative life events are risk factors of the health risk behaviours. Multiariate analysis show that:good school performance(OR=0.715), nice emotion regulation ability(OR=0.932) impact the lack of physical exercise behaviour significantly(OR=0.715,0.932). High mother degree(OR=0.768), excellent ability to regulate other's emotion(OR=0.944), low study pressure(OR=1.077) lead to a low traffic violations incidence. Gender(female,OR=0.314), good school performance(OR=0.759) and nice ability to regulate other's emotion(OR=0.948), be punished (OR=1.098) influence violent behavior statistically.Conclusion:(1)The incidence of health risk behaviours is high in Yiyang junior high school students.89.01% students have one or more health risk behaviours. (2)Except lack of physical exercise behavior, in most health risk behaviours, boys' level higher than girls. Bad school performance student experience more health risk behavior than good student. Low mother education students' health risk behaviors significantly higher than the students mother degree high. Male, bad school performance, mother degree low are probably risk factors of the adolescent health risk behaviour. (3)Mother highly educated is a protect factor of health risk behaviours. Good emotional intelligence is a protection factor of some health risk behaviours like lack physical exercise behavior, traffic violations and violent and negative life events are important risk factors of the health risk behaviours.