[Study on health related behaviors and its protective factors of junior middle school students in 4 cities of China].
OBJECTIVE
To provide accurate data on health related behaviors and protective factors among students in middle schools in China, for developing priorities, programs and policies on health education.


METHODS
We used a standard scientific sample selection process developed by American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct the questionnaire survey among middle schools from four cities--Beijing, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Urumchi.


RESULTS
Data were found as: 3.2% of students are overweight; 25.3% of students rarely washing hands before eating at school, 20.5% of the students had seriously injured in the past 12 months, 30.4% of male students having had physical fighting, 17.1% of the students having serious attempted suicide, 29.7% of the students ever tried or experimented cigarette smoking, 13.0% having drunk from alcohol and 14.5% having been offered or selling drugs during the past 30 days, 78.9% were in an insufficient amount of physical activity and only 14.3% often used seat belt when riding in a car.


CONCLUSIONS
There were many problems on health related behaviors among middle school students in these four cities, especially on hygiene, physical activities, psychological situation, smoking and drinking etc. It is absolutely necessary to develop health education for children and adolescence to promote their healthy behaviors and lifestyle.
Tian
Ben-chun
BC
Institute for Health Education, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100011, China.
Zhang
Wei
W
Qian
Ling
L
Lv
Shu-hong
SH
Cheng
Yu-lan
YL
Zhang
Ji-bin
JB
Wang
Zuo-zhen
ZZ
Tian
Xiang-yang
XY
Xiong
Guang-lian
GL
Yan
Wei-hong
WH
Zhang
Xin-wei
XW
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002681:China; D015438:Health Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014504:Urban Health