Examining age of onset of health risk behaviors as a mediator in the relationship between child maltreatment and psychosocial outcomes in middle adulthood

Background:Young adults have the highest participation in physical activity but also have the highest incidence rates of binge drinking, cigarette smoking, and smokeless tobacco use. We examined these factors to determine whether there are relationships among physical activity and health risk behaviors.Methods:We conducted correlation and χ2 analyses using the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment fall 2009 data set (N = 34,208) to examine the relationship among meeting physical-activity guidelines, binge drinking, and tobacco use among survey participants.Results:The data suggest a positive relationship between meeting physical-activity guidelines and binge drinking, with the strongest relationship between those reporting binge drinking 4 times in a 2-week period. Meeting physical-activity guidelines was negatively associated with cigarette use but positively associated with all other types of tobacco use.Conclusion:Associations between physical activity and binge-drinking episodes indicate a need to address the relationship between heavy drinking and alcohol dependence and physical-activity behavior patterns. Further studies should examine relationships between physical activity and binge drinking in other age groups. Results also suggest the need to examine differing associations between physical activity and types of tobacco use.

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Examining the relationship between childhood victimization, health risk behaviors, and adult physical health outcomes among women on probation and parole.

10.18297/etd/2021 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Tanya Renn

Keyword(s):

Health Risk ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Physical Health ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Health Risk Behaviors ◽

Childhood Victimization ◽

Physical Health Outcomes ◽

Probation And Parole ◽

Adult Physical Health ◽

The Relationship

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Delay Discounting and Health Risk Behaviors: A Review and Suggestions for School Based Intervention in Vietnam

VNU Journal of Science Education Research ◽

10.25073/2588-1159/vnuer.4326 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ho Thu Ha ◽

Dang Hoang Minh

Keyword(s):

Health Risk ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Delay Discounting ◽

Health Risk Behaviors ◽

Self Control ◽

School Based Intervention ◽

School Based ◽

Unhealthy Diet ◽

The Individual ◽

The Relationship

Delay discounting is the cognitive process that allows the individual to compare values between an immediate smaller reward and a larger but delayed reward (for instance, individual is asked to choose between 10.000 dong now or 20.000 dong in a week). Recently, delay discounting assumes an important role in the field of self-control and decision making related to health, explain why people engaged in various health risk behaviors (including unhealthy diet, inactivity, smoking, drinking). These behaviors account for serious consequences as mortality, mental disorders, cardiac diseases, cancer… This article firstly presents the concept of delay discounting and the discount functions. Secondly, it summarizes the evidences for the relationship between delay discounting and health risk behaviors and describes how the discount functions explains for these behaviors’ patterns. Lastly, it introduces some strategies to reduce delay discounting in order to improve health behaviors and makes suggestions to school-based intervention programs targeting health risk behaviors in Vietnam.

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