... their risk-taking behaviour. During this phase faculty can identify observable behaviours. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Health promotion Behaviour Universities Health education Risk Colleges The high percentage of deaths...

...Saad Zafir Alshehri; Jenny Byrne; Marcus Grace Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how and why Saudi Arabian students engage in specific health risk behaviours (HRBs), and if there are gender differences. Design/methodology/approach In order to find out the situation regarding...

...Jenny Rendahl; Peter Korp; Marianne Pipping Ekström; Christina Berg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and elucidate adolescents’ reasoning about risks related to food and eating. Design/methodology/approach Boys and girls aged 15-16 years participated in a focus group interview...

...Emma Dresler; Margaret Anderson Purpose The risk associated with heavy episodic drinking in young people has caused concern among public health professionals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender differences in the perception of risk in alcohol consumption behaviour for better...

...Sally Robinson; Carol Robinson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of a resource designed to support practitioners, who are not sexual health specialists, but who work with young people who may be at risk of teenage pregnancy or parenthood. Its aim was to enable...

.... Findings The results show that children’s consumption of fruits and vegetables is dependent on balancing risk and reward. Children know and understand the importance of eating fruits and vegetables; however, the perceived risks are typically the prevailing determinant of consumption. These perceived risks...

...=53.9, 50.7 per cent female) reported whether and when they received sexual knowledge from various sources. They were asked about their current safe sex knowledge and their lifetime sexual risk behaviours. Findings – Most of the participants (61.5 per cent) received formal sexual education...

...Keely Brookes; Jeremy Peters; Caroline Limbert Purpose – “VTE Assess Prevent” is a unique communications campaign designed to educate and remind all front-line staff to risk assess inpatients for venous thromboembolism (VTE) (blood clots) and to provide those at risk with the recommended...

... self‐belief, pointing to a number of socially located prerequisites for promoting their health. Discussions of having fun were understood as potentially liberating, resistive and subversive, but which exist in some tension with adults’ discourses of risk and risk‐taking. Originality/value Examining...

... than or besides alcohol, hash or marijuana. Drug users in the area of Maastricht and Heerlen commonly use more than one drug. Heroin (80 per cent), or a combination of heroin and cocaine, are most often used (Van Empelen et al., 2001b). Aids Drug abuse Individual behaviour Risk...

...Tracy Williams; Valerie A. Clarke; Sally Savage Women’s understanding of familial aspects of breast cancer was examined using both focus groups and interviews. The studies covered issues related to perceptions of breast cancer risk factors, perceived breast cancer risk, understanding of risk...

...Barnardo’s; the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Things We Don’t Talk about: Working with Girls and Young Women on the Issues of Abusive Relationships, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse . Bradford , Women Young people Risk Assertiveness Barnardo’s is a UK...

... the same, no support can be given to the assumption that there exist any specific “risk factors” for heavy drinkingat this early age. The questions on alcohol drinking were designed to measure current patterns of use. Drinking was investigated with the question: “How often do you use alcohol? Try...

... and family‐based nutrition intervention with young adolescents. Parents were asked to indicate the frequency with which they talked to their teenage children about a variety of issues, including school and home management issues, wellness issues and health risks. Our results suggest that school and home...

...Jenny McWhirter; Ros Weston Describes initial results from a study by researchers at the Health Education Unit at the University of Southampton to find out what children aged 4 to 13 understand by “risk” and “risky behaviour”. Suggests that the concept of risk as something that is positive...

... with schools but also with parents. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Drug abuse Education Risk Schools Teachers Young people "Compared with eight years ago, the drug situation in this country seems to have deteriorateda further worrying feature is that drug misuse appears to be progressively affecting...

...Margaret Collins Considers the meaning of “risk” as interpreted by young children and whether they have the skills to weigh up the risk factors of a situation and make a decision accordingly. Discusses the diffuse meanings of “risk” as perceived by those between five and seven and concludes...