title: [Self-perceived health and clinical characteristics in young adult students from the Brazilian northeast].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the association between socioeconomic situation, clinical characteristics referred and the family history of cardiovascular disease, with the Self-perceived health of young adults education and their implications for clinical characteristics observed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analytical study conducted with 501 young adults who are students in countryside city in the Brazilian Northeast. We used binary logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The final model explained 83.3% of the self-perceived positive health, confirming the association of Self-perceived health with male, residence in the community, have excellent/very good lifestyle and does not have or do not know that there are cases of stroke in the family.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Health perception was often optimistic, being important to identify devices to be worked closer to their perception of their actual health condition, increasing the effectiveness of health promotion activities undertaken by professionals.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Nursing Health Care Program and the Community Health Program, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thereza Maria Magalhães
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Moreira
authors.affiliation: Clinical Nursing Health Care Program, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Jênifa Cavalcante Dos Santos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Santiago
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gizelton Pereira
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Alencar
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult