Steele Eurídice Martínez, Claro Rafael Moreira, Monteiro Carlos Augusto
1 Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition, University of São Paulo (NUPENS/USP), Av. Dr Arnaldo 715, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, CEP 01246-904.
Public Health Nutr. 2014 Feb;17(2):369-75. doi: 10.1017/S1368980012005472. Epub 2013 Jan 11.
To identify behavioural patterns of protective and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCD) and to explore the association between these patterns and sociodemographic characteristics.
Principal component analysis was used to identify behavioural patterns from a list of twelve protective and risk factors for NCD. Linear regression was used to explore the association between the patterns and sociodemographic characteristics.
Participants from the Brazilian Surveillance System of Risk and Protective Factors for NCD through Telephone Interviews (VIGITEL) from the years 2009 and 2010 were included.
A sample of 108 706 adults was included in the analysis.
Two behavioural patterns were identified in the analysis, a 'prudent pattern' and a 'risky pattern'. The first involved mostly protective behaviours, while the second one involved essentially the risky ones. Both the less prudent and the more risky behaviour patterns were concentrated in younger men, with lower education, from the more developed region.
Public policies to decrease NCD should be aware of the possible tendency towards behavioural patterns in order to be more effective.
确定非传染性疾病（NCD）的保护因素和风险因素的行为模式，并探讨这些模式与社会人口学特征之间的关联。
主成分分析用于从12项非传染性疾病的保护因素和风险因素列表中确定行为模式。线性回归用于探讨这些模式与社会人口学特征之间的关联。
纳入了2009年和2010年通过电话访谈参与巴西非传染性疾病风险和保护因素监测系统（VIGITEL）的参与者。
分析纳入了108706名成年人的样本。
分析中确定了两种行为模式，即“谨慎模式”和“风险模式”。第一种模式主要涉及保护性行为，而第二种模式主要涉及风险行为。不太谨慎和风险更高的行为模式都集中在来自更发达地区、教育程度较低的年轻男性中。
减少非传染性疾病的公共政策应注意行为模式的可能趋势，以便更有效。
