[Risk factors for the health of adolescent students].
OBJECTIVE
To profile COU and 5th-year FP students for the theoretical importance they give to health and their self-perception of the same. To measure their level of knowledge, activities and conduct regarding health risk factors.


METHODS
Descriptive crossover study.


METHODS
Primary Care district of the Alpujarra, Granada.


METHODS
190 COU and 5th-year FP students from schools in the Alpujarra (95% of the total).


RESULTS
The majority of these young people cites health as among the three most important elements in their life, yet lived alongside important risk factors. Although 69% defined their health as good or very good, 64% got drunk at least once a year. Although they all accepted the harmfulness of tobacco, 54.1% (with no difference between the sexes) smoked to some degree. Only 2.6% identified the days of greatest risk of pregnancy in a supposed cycle, although 19% stated that they had heterosexual relations. AIDS was considered the illness most to be feared. 13% had had a motor-bike accident in recent years.


CONCLUSIONS
There is a contradiction between the high theoretical importance given to health, the self-definition of good health and cohabitation with important risk factors. The inefficacy of the Primary Care and Education systems in the primary prevention of important risk factors affecting adolescents' health was also demonstrated.
Aguado Mingorance
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Distrito Sanitario de la Alpujarra, Granada.
Aguilar Domínguez
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Maeso Villafaña
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Jiménez de la Higuera
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Alvarez Franco
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Montoro Ruiz
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Factores de riesgo para la salud en estudiantes adolescentes.