La conception de la santé chez des garçons de 14 à 16 ans de milieu défavorisé.

Abstract

ResumeDans le but de decrire leur conception de la sante, des entrevues individuelles ont ete conduites aupres de 700 garcons de 14 a 16 ans de milieu defavorise. Une analyse de contenu classique a ete realisee sur les verbalisations des jeunes et des taux d'accords interjuges ont ete calcules. La capacite d'assumer ses activites de facpn optimale, les habitudes de vie saines et, dans une moindre mesure, la sante mentale caracterisent leur conception de la sante. Les adolescents accentuent 1'importance dans leur quartier des elements naturels du paysage, de 1'absence de pollution et des encouragements a 1'activite physique. La mere represente la principale informatrice en matiere de sante et la television, la principale source d'information mediatique. Les garcpns n'ont pas aborde les problemes de sante dominants a 1'adolescence: traumatismes routiers, suicide, grossesses et maladies sexuellement transmissibles. Ceci pourrait s'expliquer par 1'hypothese du miroir des efforts en prevention-promotion: la conception de la sante des jeunes refleterait principalement ce que les adultes leur inculquent.

Adolescents'perception of their own Risk-Taking Behaviour

“…On the whole, the students' perceptions were quite similar to those of the adults who were questioned, and to those of the society as a whole. Other studies have shown that adolescents' perception or their preoccupations with health issues reflect what adults instill into them (Jutras, Tremblay and Morin, 1999); and, in this sense they reflect th'e customs of a society or its tradition (Duong Dinh Cong, Vo Thi Xuan Hanh, Ho Th Huonngn and Deschamps, 2001). These findings lead us on one hand to conclude that training of health professionals must take adolescents' perceptions about health into account and, on the other hand, that we must be more vigilant that boys have access to health care and that means to interpret their psychological suffering be available.…”

Taking Stock of Delinquency

“…Although the original focus of the MLES was on the development of antisocial behavior, investigators became interested in the development of many other dimensions of human development, some closely related to antisocial behavior, such as hyperactivity (e.g., Pulkkinen & Tremblay, 1992;Soussignan et al), anxiety (e.g., Dobkin, Treiber, & Tremblay, 2000;, substance use and abuse (e.g., Carbonneau et al, 1998;Dobkin, Tremblay, & Sacchitelle, 1997;Mâsse & Tremblay, 1997), gambling(e.g., Vitaro,Arseneault, & Tremblay, 1997;Vitaro, Arseneault, & Tremblay, 1999), school performance (e.g., Haapasalo, Tremblay, Boulerice, & Vitaro, 2000;Pagani, Tremblay, Vitaro, Boulerice, & McDuff, 2001), accidents (e.g., Junger & Tremblay, 1999;Tremblay, Boulerice, Junger, & Arseneault, 1995), heart rate variability (e.g., Kindlon et al, 1995;Mezzacappa et al, 1997), pubertal maturation, sexual intercourse and testosterone (e.g., Malo & Tremblay, 1997;Schaal, Tremblay, Soussignan, & Susman, 1996;Tremblay et al, 1997;Tremblay et al, 1998), perinatal complications (Arseneault, Tremblay, Boulerice, & Saucier, 2002;Pagani, Tremblay, Vitaro, & Parent, 1998), physical anomalies (Arseneault, Tremblay, Boulerice, Séguin, & Saucier, 2000), poverty (Pagani, Boulerice, Vitaro, & Tremblay, 1999), and others less closely related, such as nutrition (e.g., , olfaction (Schaal, Rouby, Marlier, Soussignan, Kontar, & Tremblay, 1998), pain sensitivity (Ditto, Séguin, Boulerice, Pihl, & Tremblay, 1998), and physical health (Dobkin, Tremblay, & Treiber, 1998;Jutras, Tremblay, & Morin, 1999).…”