Health and Well‐Being Among Young People From Canadian Farms: Associations With a Culture of Risk‐Taking

Pickett, William; Berg, Richard L.; Marlenga, Barbara

doi:10.1111/jrh.12281

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“…Rural upbringing could also be a potential predictor of increased substance use and impaired driving. As reported for adolescents ( Minaker et al, 2017 ; Pickett, Berg, & Marlenga, 2018 ), students from rural schools in Canada are more apt of consuming alcohol, drinking and driving and being passengers in a car driven by an impaired driver than students from urban schools. Furthermore, other studies suggest that students who consume alcohol and drugs prior to entering college are more likely to later engage in social and recreational activities where alcohol and drugs are available ( Patrick et al, 2019 ; Simons et al, 2005 ).…”

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confidence: 76%

Substance use and impaired driving prevalence among Francophone and Anglophone postsecondary students in Western Canada

Gueye

Bohémier

Moissac

2019

Addictive Behaviors Reports

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Introduction Substance use and impaired driving increase risk of motor vehicle crashes and deaths. Individual, socio-economic and -cultural factors are associated with these at-risk behaviors; however, little is known if differences exist between the Anglophone majority and minority Francophone populations in Canada. This article describes prevalence of substance use, impaired driving and driving practices by postsecondary student and compares Francophones and Anglophones with respect to these behaviors. Methods Postsecondary students between 18 and 24 years attending a Francophone university in Western Canada completed a paper-based survey during class-time. Results Prevalence of alcohol consumption, binge drinking and marijuana use in the past month were 88.6%, 64.2% and 22.7% respectively. Francophone participants were more likely to consume more alcohol, participate in drinking games, and consume marijuana during the past month than Anglophones. They were also more likely to report impaired-driving, speeding, distracted driving and being passenger in a motor vehicle driven by an impaired driver. Conclusion Awareness campaigns on campus highlighting the risks of substance use and unsafe driving practices should be strengthened and target Francophone students in linguistic minority communities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

Substance use and impaired driving prevalence among Francophone and Anglophone postsecondary students in Western Canada

Gueye

Bohémier

Moissac

2019

Addictive Behaviors Reports

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“…It is our hope that these findings could lead to health promotion initiatives aimed at stressing the benefits of sleep in farm communities. If successful, such initiatives could reduce injury rates given the dangerous nature of farm work and the culture and tradition of risk‐taking lifestyles among farm adolescents . However, we need evidence from randomized controlled trials that would support specific intervention strategies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study provides an opportunity to explore these questions in a robust, national sample of young people given that this study included items that assess sleep characteristics 11,16 and identify adolescents aged 11-16 years living or working on farms. 17,18 Our hope was that an epidemiological analysis of the Canadian HBSC study would provide foundational evidence for health promotion strategies aimed at adolescents on farms.…”

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Sleep in Farm Adolescents

Janssen

Berg

Marlenga

et al. 2018

The Journal of Rural Health

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Purpose The objectives were to: (1) describe sleep timing and patterns among adolescents who live or work on farms; (2) compare these sleep characteristics to those of nonfarm adolescents; (3) explore whether the above sleep and farm versus nonfarm differences varied by age and gender. Methods Participants were aged 11‐16 years and were abstracted from the 2014 Canadian Health Behaviour in School‐aged Children study. Records from 2,160 farm adolescents were frequency matched (by school, gender, and grade) to records from 2,210 nonfarm adolescents. Participants self‐reported their bedtimes and wake‐up times on weekdays and weekends. Findings Among farm adolescents, average nightly sleep duration (hours:minutes) ranged from 08:34 among 14‐ to 16‐year‐old girls to 09:21 among 11‐ to 13‐year‐old girls. Approximately 24% to 32% of farm adolescents did not meet minimal sleep duration targets. For 11‐ to 13‐year‐olds, sleep characteristics did not differ according to farm status. However, for 14‐ to 16‐year‐olds, farm adolescents had shorter sleep durations than nonfarm adolescents (23 minutes for boys, P = .02; 20 minutes for girls, P = .06). Furthermore, a greater proportion of 14‐ to 16‐year‐old farm boys had sleep duration values less than the recommended 8 hours/night (27.7% vs 19.6%, P = .05). Conclusions This study profiles the sleep experiences of 11‐ to 16‐year‐old farm adolescents. Almost 1 in 3 of these adolescents did not get adequate sleep. Older adolescents who lived or worked on a farm slept less than comparably aged nonfarm adolescents. This may reflect their participation in morning chores essential to the farm operation and may increase their injury risk.

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“…Given the broad range of research and general knowledge on disease, health and its determinants, health risks meet the methodological precondition (Macintyre et al, 2006). The cells of the RCF grid are covered by numerous specific health aspects including links between social relationships or social cognition and health or observable health risk behaviors (e.g., Howell & Ratliff, 2019;Thoits, 2011) and contextual environmental determinants related to a health risk-taking lifestyle (e.g., Pickett et al, 2018), as well as the relationship of secular culture to health risk behavior (Svensson et al, 2019). The lesser-studied, less-accessible aspects are considered here using research on health assumptions, beliefs or framing, and their influence, for example, on health behavior (Auster-Gussman & Rothman, 2018;Parent & Alquist, 2016), the obtainment of health-related information (e.g., Kim et al, 2017), and the use of treatment and preventive services (e.g., DiMatteo et al, 2007, DiMatteo et al, 2002.…”

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The structure of the Risk Culture Framework: Evidence from a health context

Bielefeld¹,

Streicher²,

Gürer³

2023

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Risk assessment and behavior of social entities, such as societies, organizations or groups, are shaped by shared values and beliefs. Such shared convictions on how risk is perceived and handled are widely labeled as risk culture. While risk culture is a promising approach for comprehensively considering risk aspects in social dynamics, its structure still lacks conceptual clarity. In this regard, the recently introduced Risk Culture Framework (RCF) was aimed at providing an operationalization foundation for risk culture research through a 3x3 grid representing different cultural levels and influencing domains. However, until now, the RCF has neither been empirically applied nor tested. In the current study, the structural fit of the model is evaluated using empirical data pertaining to health risks gathered by an exploratory questionnaire (N = 500). For the sake of methodological consistency, the cultural level of implicit factors was not considered due to its methodological specificity. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to analyze the fit of the assumed model structure as well as that of other applicable models. Model indices for the RCF-oriented risk culture model structure were acceptable and better than those for the other models tested. Overall, results support the theoretical-based structure of the RCF, and provide a foundation for further research on risk culture. Future approaches and applications of the RCF to more specific risk subjects are discussed.

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Health and Well‐Being Among Young People From Canadian Farms: Associations With a Culture of Risk‐Taking

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Substance use and impaired driving prevalence among Francophone and Anglophone postsecondary students in Western Canada

Substance use and impaired driving prevalence among Francophone and Anglophone postsecondary students in Western Canada

Sleep in Farm Adolescents

The structure of the Risk Culture Framework: Evidence from a health context

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