de Visser Richard O, Rissel Chris E, Smith Anthony M A, Richters Juliet
Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Int J Behav Med. 2006;13(2):153-62. doi: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm1302_7.
To facilitate the development of interventions to reduce health risk behavior among young people, we designed this study to compare risk behavior among young people and older people, to compare risk behavior profiles between young men and women, and to identify sociodemographic correlates of risk behavior among young people. Computer-assisted telephone interviews with a representative sample of 19,307 Australian men and women (response rate 73.1%) assessed alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, injection drug use, and unprotected intercourse. Respondents aged 16 to 24 reported less healthy behavior than older people. Although men and women aged 16 to 24 had similar profiles of health risk behavior, correlates of these behaviors differed for men and women. There were few consistent sociodemographic correlates of different risk behaviors. The results suggest that young women are now as important a priority as young men for interventions. Young people remain an important target group for health promotion, with nonheterosexual young people a particular high-risk group.
为推动制定减少年轻人健康风险行为的干预措施，我们开展了本研究，以比较年轻人与年长者之间的风险行为，比较年轻男性与女性之间的风险行为特征，并确定年轻人风险行为的社会人口学相关因素。通过对19307名澳大利亚男性和女性的代表性样本进行计算机辅助电话访谈（应答率73.1%），评估了饮酒、吸烟、注射吸毒和无保护性行为情况。16至24岁的受访者报告的健康行为比年长者少。虽然16至24岁的男性和女性有相似的健康风险行为特征，但这些行为的相关因素在男性和女性中有所不同。不同风险行为几乎没有一致的社会人口学相关因素。结果表明，年轻女性现在与年轻男性一样，都是干预措施的重要优先对象。年轻人仍然是健康促进的重要目标群体，非异性恋年轻人是特别高危的群体。
