Lifestyle and health behaviors of high school students in Jastrzębie-Zdrój

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Dariusz Góra

4 (57) 2018 s. 389–394
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20883/ppnoz.2018.57

Fraza do cytowania: Góra D. Lifestyle and health behaviors of high school students in Jastrzębie-Zdrój. Polski Przegląd Nauk o Zdrowiu. 2018;4(57):389–394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20883/ppnoz.2018.57

Introduction. Lifestyle of each person determines his health to a large extent. Pro-health behaviours are: physical activity, rational nutrition and taking care of personal hygiene. Whereas anti-health behaviours are as follows: smoking, drinking alcohol, using psychogenic drugs and casual sexual contacts. Aim. The aim of this article is to depict certain selected health behaviours of high school students in Jastrzębie-Zdrój. Material and methods. The research material was an anonymous survey (addressed to secondary school students of classes III aged 18–19) containing questions about diet, frequency of drinking alcohol, smoking and physical activity. Based on percentage calculation (without sex division) the relationships between studied phenomena were determined and their interpretation has been made. Results. Among 217, 24% of respondents drink alcohol once a week, twice or three times a week (17%) and two or three times a month (16%) drink alcohol. 69 % of respondents regularly participate in physical education classes and 31% do not take part in the classes. As many as 89% of the respondents admitted that thay eat sweets five times a week and fast foods at least once a week. 13% of students admit that they smoke every day. Conclusions. Drinking alcohol among youth in Jastrzebie-Zdroj is widespread to an extent similar to the national average. Low interest of parents in issues important for their children, insufficient closeness with family and upbringing in incomplete families are the factors that affect the frequency of drinking alcohol and smoking among youth.

Key words: smoking, overweight, obesity, physical activity, drinking alcohol.



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