Risk behavioral survey in the sample of Slovak adolescents

Babjaková, Jana; Vondrová, Diana; Jurkovičová, Jana; Samohýl, Martin; Filova, Alexandra; Janko, Zvonimir; Stefanikova, Zuzana; Hirošová, Katarína; Weitzman, Michael; Argalášová, Ľubica

doi:10.4149/bll_2019_151

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“…The experience with alternative tobacco products (ATP) (except EC) had 63.1 % of students. There were no differences in the experience with EC vaping among age groups -a very high percentage (> 40 %) in both groups (younger and older) [30].…”

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E-Cigarette Use Among University Students in Slovakia

Babjaková¹,

Weitzman²,

Vondrová³

et al. 2020

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Young adults are more likely to have experimented with electronic cigarettes (EC) and underestimate their risks. The on-line survey adapted from American Survey on Tobacco and Alternative Tobacco Products included questions about the personal use of EC, perceptions about the harms and their role in disease causation, education and cessation training and practices related to classical cigarettes (CC), electronic cigarettes (EC) and alternative tobacco products (ATP). The questionnaire filled in 577 medical students (71.9% women) from Comenius University in Bratislava, the average age was 23±2yrs. The sample comprised of 486 (84.2%) Slovak and 91 (15.8%) foreign students; 385 were (66.7%) non-smokers, 111 (19.3%) ex-smokers and 81 (14 %) current smokers. EC currently use 13.5 % medical students, more males than females (22.2% vs 10.12%; OR 2.53, 95% CI 1.55−4.13), more foreign students than Slovak students (24.2% vs 11.52; OR 2.44, 95% CI 1.41−4.26), more smokers of classical cigarettes than non-smokers (46.9% vs 8.06%; OR 10.07, 95% CI 5.85−17.34). EC seems to be less harmful to 59.97 % students, mostly in the age groups ≤ 24 (61.76% vs 51.49%; OR 1.46, 95% CI 1.03−2.07), 41.25% of students consider EC to be less addictive, 55.6% think they do not get enough education on EC during their medical study. The results show the high consumption of tobacco products and the lack of knowledge and awareness among medical students.

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E-Cigarette Use Among University Students in Slovakia

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“…They included questions on a residence, family, school, health and safety, habits and behavior, nutrition, body weight and height, lifestyle, and physical activity of adolescents and young adults and their parents. The special emphasis has been paid to the demographic (gender, age, residence, educational level) and behavioral (home and school stress, health status) characteristics of dental preventive care attendance among adolescents and young adults [24,25]. A pilot validation of the Slovak version of the questionnaire was performed on 20 respondents and then the questions were finalized.…”

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Factors Associated with Non-Attendance at Dental Preventive Care in Slovak High School Students

Samohýl

Babjaková

Vondrová

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This study aimed to determine the factors associated with the avoidance of dental preventive care in high school students and their parents in the framework of The Youth and Parents Risk Factor Behavior Survey in Slovakia, the ongoing cross-sectional school-based survey of students and their parents or legal representatives. The data were collected using two separate standardized questionnaires: (i) the questionnaire for students (n = 515) and (ii) the questionnaire for parents (n = 681). The study group included 57 high school students (54.4% males) who did not visit the dentist for preventive care in the previous year. The control group included 458 students (35.8% males) who visited a dentist for preventive care at least once in the previous year. A significantly higher number of males (54.4%), older adolescents, and young adults (21.8%; 20.0%) were not visiting dental preventive care regularly. Incomplete family (56.1%), stressful situations at home (17.5%), and feeling unwell were the factors contributing to the avoidance of dental preventive care. More than 34.5% of adolescents and young adults were not visiting either dental preventive care or pediatric preventive care (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 5.14; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.40, 10.99). Children of divorced mothers and mothers with household income lower than EUR 900 had significantly higher dental care avoidance in bivariate analysis. A significantly higher percentage of fathers from the exposed group were not visiting dental preventive care regularly (47.8%, p < 0.05). The results of the study can be used as an educational intervention step focusing on the parental influence on adolescent and young adults’ behavior and as a challenge for the improvement of dental preventive care in older adolescents and young adults.

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“…The sample involves 515 adolescents aged 15−19 years old from 8 selected secondary schools in Bratislava from a total of 101 secondary vocational and grammar schools -there were 22,723 students totally in Bratislava on the 1st of January 2016. A more detailed description of the sample was published previously [23][24]. In this cross-sectional study, 37.9% of males and 62.1% of females participated.…”

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Factors Associated with Non-Attendance at Dental Preventive Care in Slovak Adolescents

Samohýl¹,

Babjaková²,

Vondrová³

et al. 2020

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The study aimed to determine the factors associated with the avoidance of dental preventive care in adolescents and their parents in the framework of The Youth and Parents Risk Factor Behavior Survey in Slovakia has been initiated during the years 2015/2016. The data were collected using two separate standardized questionnaires: (i) the questionnaire for adolescents (n=515) and (ii) the questionnaire for parents (n=681). The study group consisted of 57 adolescents (54.4% males) who did not visit the dentist for preventive care in the previous year. The control group consisted of 458 adolescents (35.8% males) who visited a dentist for preventive care at least once in the previous year. A significantly higher number of males (54.4%), older adolescents (21.4%) were not visiting dental preventive care regularly. Incomplete family (56.1%), stressful situations at home (17.5%), and feeling unwell were observed as the factors contributing to the avoidance of dental preventive care. More than 34.5% of adolescents were not visiting either dental preventive care but also pediatric preventive care (AOR=5.14; 95%CI=2.40, 10.99). Divorced mothers and mothers with household income lower than 900 € had significantly higher dental care avoidance in their children. A significantly higher percentage of fathers from the exposed group were not visiting dental preventive care regularly (47.8%; p&lt; .05). The results of the study can be used as an educational intervention steps focusing on the influence of parental and adolescent behavior in dental preventive care.

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Risk behavioral survey in the sample of Slovak adolescents

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

E-Cigarette Use Among University Students in Slovakia

E-Cigarette Use Among University Students in Slovakia

Factors Associated with Non-Attendance at Dental Preventive Care in Slovak High School Students

Factors Associated with Non-Attendance at Dental Preventive Care in Slovak Adolescents

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