Trends of 20 Health Risk Behaviours Among Adolescents in Morocco: Results of Three National Cross-Sectional School Surveys of 2006, 2010 and 2016

Pengpid, Supa; Peltzer, Karl

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“…Lifetime drug use was higher in boys(11.1% in 2008) than girls (1.3% in 2008), and remained unchanged among boys but signi cantly increased in girls to 3.0% in 2021. It's possible that the study's ndings about the decline in peer support and parental support among girls contributed to the rise in substance use overall and among girls speci cally.Consistent with some earlier trend studies[34,49], injuries and bullied increased among both sexes; however, this survey demonstrated that being physically assaulted and engaging in physical ghting decreased over time, as also found in trend studies in Lebanon, Morocco and UAE[34,49,50]. One possible explanation for the decrease in interpersonal violence, is the unchanged substance use among boys in this study, and the increase of lack of peer support among females increased bullying victimisation among females.…”

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Adolescent health-risk behaviours in Thailand: patterns from national cross-sectional school surveys conducted in 2008, 2015, and 2021

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Peltzer

2024

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Background: This study looked at trends in a number of health-risky behaviours among teenagers in Thailand from three separate surveys. Methods: Data from 12,183 teenagers (mean age: 13.9 years, SD=1.2; age range: 11–16 years) who took part in three cross-sectional national school surveys in Thailand in 2008, 2015, and 2021 were analyzed. A self-administered survey was used to evaluate thirty-three health risk behaviours. By using logistic regression analyses to treat the study year as a categorical variable and adjusting food insecurity and age, the significance of a linear trend was examined. Results: We found a significant increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity, inadequate fruit and inadequate vegetables intake, leisure-time sedentary behaviour, physical inactivity, parental tobacco use, physical injury, bullying victimisation, loneliness, not having close friends, sleep problems, ever sex, and suboptimal hand hygiene after toilet use, and a significant decrease in physically attacked. Among boys, a significant increase of inadequate tooth brushing, and suboptimal hand hygiene (not always using soap to wash hands), and a decrease in smoking quit attempts, participation in physical fights, and number of sexual partners, and among females, a decrease in non-condom use was found. Furthermore, among girls, a significant increase in the prevalence of current tobacco use (cigarettes and other), current alcohol use, lifetime drunkenness, trouble from alcohol use, lifetime drug use, suicidal ideation and plan was found. Conclusion: Overall, from 2008 to 2021, there was a decrease in four health risk behaviours among boys and/or girls, while among boys there was an increase in fourteen health risk behaviours and among girls twenty health risk behaviours. In Thailand, school health programmes for teenagers are recommended.

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Adolescent health-risk behaviours in Thailand: patterns from national cross-sectional school surveys conducted in 2008, 2015, and 2021

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2024

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“…The prevalence of health risk behaviours in adolescents need to be monitored over time at country level to make intervention strategies more appropriate and successful [ 18 , 19 ]. For example, in a trend study among school-going adolescents in Morocco from 2006 to 2016, “five health risk behaviours (being physically attacked, annual injury, passive smoking, zero days walking or biking to school, and poor hand hygiene after toilet use) significantly declined over time, and inadequate fruit intake and current tobacco use increased over time.” [ 20 ]. No trend study among adolescents on various health risk behaviours has been identified in Latin America, including Argentina.…”

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“…Therefore, the aim of this study was assessing trends of 27 health risk behaviours in the 2007, 2012 and 2018 Argentina GSHS. Findings from such a trend study on the epidemiology of health compromising behaviours may help us to understand and design better school health promotion strategies [ 20 ].…”

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Health risk behaviours among adolescents in Argentina: trends between 2007, 2012 and 2018 national cross-sectional school surveys

Peltzer

Pengpid

2021

BMC Pediatr

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Background The aim of this study was to assess trends of various health risk behaviours among adolescents across three different surveys in Argentina. Methods Data from 115,697 adolescents (mean age:14.6 years, SD=1.2) that participated in three cross-sectional national school surveys in 2007, 2012 and 2018 were analysed. In all, 27 health risk behaviours were assessed through a self-administered questionnaire. Significance of a linear trend was tested by treating study year as categorical variable in logistic regression analyses, adjusted by age group and food insecurity for boys and girls separately Results Among both sexes, four health risk behaviours (current cigarette use, passive smoking, trouble from alcohol use, and physically attacked) significantly reduced from 2007 to 2018. Among boys five health risk behaviours (experience of hunger, parental tobacco use, current alcohol use, involvement in physical fighting, and multiple sexual partners), and among girls, inadequate physical activity significantly reduced over time. Among both sexes, the prevalence of four health risk behaviours (overweight/obesity, obesity, leisure-time sedentary behaviour and insufficient fruit intake) significantly increased among both sexes, and among girls ten health risk behaviours (not walking/biking to school, current other tobacco use, bullying victimisation, lifetime drunkenness, having no close friends, suicide plan, suicidal ideation, worry-induced sleep disturbance, loneliness, and ever sexual intercourse) significantly increased over time. Conclusion Nine health risk behaviours among boys and five health risk behaviours among girls decreased, and four health risk behaviours among boys and 14 health compromising behaviours among girls increased over a period of 11 years. School health programmes for adolescents should be strengthened in Argentina.

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“…Ultimately, data from 29 countries were included in our study ( Supplementary Figure S1 ). Information relating to anxiety-induced sleep loss was obtained with the question “During the past 12 months, how often have you been so worried about something that you could not sleep at night?” ( 13 ) with response options of 1 (never), 2 (rarely), 3 (sometimes), 4 (most of the time), and 5 (always) with scores coded as 1–3 = 0 and 4–5 = 1, The adolescents who were identified as having anxiety-induced sleep loss were coded as 1. Confounding variables included sex, age, and hunger.…”

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“…A decreasing trend in the prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss was reported in the Philippines from 2003 to 2011 ( 11 ) and in Lebanon from 2005 to 2017 ( 12 ). Besides, stable trends were noted from 2005/2006 to 2016 in the United Arab Emirates ( 12 ) and Morocco ( 13 ). A study in Korea suggested that the prevalence of individual meeting recommendations sleep guidelines were stable, and from 9.7% in 2013 to 10.3% in 2018 ( 14 ).…”

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A pooled analysis of temporal trends in the prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss among adolescents aged 12–15 years across 29 countries

Xu,

Li,

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundPrevious studies examining trends in sleep loss among adolescents have mainly focused on single countriy and region. This study aims to analyze temporal trends in the prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss among adolescents from 29 countries in five regions.MethodsThis study used data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey 2003–2018, which surveyed 215,380 adolescents from 29 countries with at least two cross-sectional surveys per country. The weighted country-specific prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss and trends across the survey years were evaluated. Random- or fixed-effects meta-analyses were used to calculate pooled prevalence and temporal trends across 29 countries.ResultsTemporal variations in anxiety-induced sleep loss across countries were identified. Increasing (Suriname, Vanuatu, and Myanmar), decreasing (Namibia, Jamaica, the Philippines, Samoa, and Indonesia), and stable (all other countries) trends in anxiety-induced sleep loss were noted. The pooled weighted prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss was 11.35 and 10.67% in the first and last surveys, respectively. There was no meaningful change in the propensity to have anxiety-related sleep disorders over time, with the reduction and OR of these two surveys being 0.54 (−0.53–1.61) and 0.98 (0.88–1.10). For subgroup analyses, no significant differences in pooled anxiety-induced sleep loss trends were seen between the two surveys for different sexes, regions, incomes, survey years in the first wave, survey periods, or number of surveys.ConclusionTrends in the prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss in adolescents varied significantly across different countries. Generally, a stable trend was observed in 21 of the 29 countries surveyed. Our study provides data that can aid policymakers in establishing country-specific strategies for reducing anxiety-induced sleep loss in adolescents.

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Trends of 20 Health Risk Behaviours Among Adolescents in Morocco: Results of Three National Cross-Sectional School Surveys of 2006, 2010 and 2016

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Adolescent health-risk behaviours in Thailand: patterns from national cross-sectional school surveys conducted in 2008, 2015, and 2021

Adolescent health-risk behaviours in Thailand: patterns from national cross-sectional school surveys conducted in 2008, 2015, and 2021

Health risk behaviours among adolescents in Argentina: trends between 2007, 2012 and 2018 national cross-sectional school surveys

A pooled analysis of temporal trends in the prevalence of anxiety-induced sleep loss among adolescents aged 12–15 years across 29 countries

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