Sentences with phrase «against health risk behaviors»

«º» º Are more socially involved in school «º» º Have a perceived school connectedness which is protective against health risk behaviors like emotional distress, violence and substance use

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In other words, an emotionally close father - child relationship not only serves as a significant protective factor against high risk behaviors, but it is also a potential source of health for the entire family.

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

A promising direction for future prevention studies would be to test a combination of the elementary grade interventions used here with middle school curricula that seek to promote norms against health - risk behaviors such as drug use and to enhance life skills to resist health - compromising social influences.3, 6,7,31

Those with out of control sexual behaviors find themselves missing work, staying up all night, going against their own values and putting themselves at risk for legal, marital and health consequences.