title: [Perception of risk of school adolescents in relation to alcohol consumption and sexual behavior].
abstract: Alcohol use has been a major precipitating cause of situations of vulnerability in adolescence. The study aims to analyze the risk perception about the relationship of adolescent alcohol use and sexual behavior. The subjects were ten adolescents between 14 and 19, students from a public school in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach based on the technique of focus group and systematized by means of five workshops. Teenagers recognize the risk between alcohol consumption and sexual behavior and emphasize that drinking facilitates the relations between sexual peers and indicate the influence of media in this process. The perception of adolescents and their relation to alcohol abuse and its consequences is particularly relevant to the implementation of public policies for preventing and fighting alcohol consumption at this stage of growth and development.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil.
authors.forename: Francisco Jucier Luz
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Sampaio Filho
authors.forename: Pedro Ricardo Mesquita
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: de Sousa
authors.forename: Neiva Francenely Cunha
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.forename: Maria de Fátima Bastos
authors.initials: Mde F
authors.lastname: Nóbrega
authors.forename: Fabiane do Amaral
authors.initials: Fdo A
authors.lastname: Gubert
authors.forename: Patrícia Neyva da Costa
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Pinheiro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D055815:Young Adult