title: Risky music-listening behaviors and associated health-risk behaviors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine, among adolescents and emerging adults attending inner-city lower education, associations between risky music-listening behaviors (from MP3 players and in discotheques and at pop concerts) and more traditional health-risk behaviors: substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs) and unsafe sexual intercourse.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 944 students in Dutch inner-city senior-secondary vocational schools completed questionnaires about their music-listening and traditional health-risk behaviors. Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to examine associations between music-listening and traditional health-risk behaviors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Risky MP3-player listeners used cannabis more often during the past 4 weeks. Students exposed to risky sound levels during discotheque and pop concert attendance used cannabis less often during the past 4 weeks, were more often binge drinkers, and reported inconsistent condom use during sexual intercourse.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The coexistence of risky music-listening behaviors with other health-risk behaviors provides evidence in support of the integration of risky music-listening behaviors within research on and programs aimed at reducing more traditional health-risk behaviors, such as substance abuse and unsafe sexual intercourse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands. i.vogel@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Ineke
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.forename: Petra M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: van de Looij-Jansen
authors.forename: Cathelijne L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mieloo
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burdorf
authors.forename: Frouwkje
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Waart
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D055539:MP3-Player; D008297:Male; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D047568:Unsafe Sex / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult