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k behaviours among 3rd grade secondary school students psihosocialno zdravje v otroštvu in v mladosti | psychosocial health in childhood and youth
in the region of Goriška
Monika Tratnik1, Andreja Kvas2, Helena Jeriček Klanšček3
1Health Centre Nova Gorica, Rejčeva 4, 5000, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Zdravstvena pot 5, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
3National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Intoduction: Adolescence is a period of great changes that force individuals to
seek different experiences. By experimenting, they often engage themselves in
risk behaviours, all along building their own identity. The purpose of the article
is to search out different factors that have to do with smoking tobacco, alcohol
consumption and smoking cannabis among 3rd year secondary school students
in the Goriška region regardless of the type of school they attend. The abstract
was based of Master's thesis.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, sampling was random. The researched
population are 3rd graders of different secondary schools in the region of
Goriška. Appropriately filled up questionnaires used for the analysis account-
ed to 419. The instrument we used was part of the questionnaire from the re-
search Health behaviour in school-aged children. It deals with health-related
behaviour in the school-aged children in Slovenia and demographic data. We
used SPSS 23.0 programme, using univariate and bivariate statistics.
Results: The results have shown that 8.6 % of students smoke on a daily ba-
sis. 12.9 % of the students have been drunk more than ten times. Aged 16 and
more 20 % of the students have tried cannabis for the first time. Among the pu-
pils of different secondary schools statistically significant differences have come
up in regards to the frequency of smoking (χ2 = 14,537; p = 0,024) and alcohol
consumption (χ2 = 16,951; p = 0,031).
Discussion and conclusions: The research has shown that risk behaviours are
present among 3rd year secondary school students and that they are connect-
ed to the type of school they attend. Through regularly, based health-relat-
ed workshops carried out by a nurse a great deal can be done towards raising
awareness about the negative influences that risk behaviours necessarily exert
as well as promoting the importance of healthy spare time activities.
Keywords: adolescent, smoking tobacco, smoking cannabis, alcohol
consumption
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in the region of Goriška
Monika Tratnik1, Andreja Kvas2, Helena Jeriček Klanšček3
1Health Centre Nova Gorica, Rejčeva 4, 5000, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Zdravstvena pot 5, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
3National Institute of Public Health, Trubarjeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Intoduction: Adolescence is a period of great changes that force individuals to
seek different experiences. By experimenting, they often engage themselves in
risk behaviours, all along building their own identity. The purpose of the article
is to search out different factors that have to do with smoking tobacco, alcohol
consumption and smoking cannabis among 3rd year secondary school students
in the Goriška region regardless of the type of school they attend. The abstract
was based of Master's thesis.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, sampling was random. The researched
population are 3rd graders of different secondary schools in the region of
Goriška. Appropriately filled up questionnaires used for the analysis account-
ed to 419. The instrument we used was part of the questionnaire from the re-
search Health behaviour in school-aged children. It deals with health-related
behaviour in the school-aged children in Slovenia and demographic data. We
used SPSS 23.0 programme, using univariate and bivariate statistics.
Results: The results have shown that 8.6 % of students smoke on a daily ba-
sis. 12.9 % of the students have been drunk more than ten times. Aged 16 and
more 20 % of the students have tried cannabis for the first time. Among the pu-
pils of different secondary schools statistically significant differences have come
up in regards to the frequency of smoking (χ2 = 14,537; p = 0,024) and alcohol
consumption (χ2 = 16,951; p = 0,031).
Discussion and conclusions: The research has shown that risk behaviours are
present among 3rd year secondary school students and that they are connect-
ed to the type of school they attend. Through regularly, based health-relat-
ed workshops carried out by a nurse a great deal can be done towards raising
awareness about the negative influences that risk behaviours necessarily exert
as well as promoting the importance of healthy spare time activities.
Keywords: adolescent, smoking tobacco, smoking cannabis, alcohol
consumption
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