Clustering of adolescents' health behaviors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining transitions and the role of demographics and parental health behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic and its measures have profoundly affected adolescents' lives, including their health behaviors. As a host of research indicates that adolescent health behaviors cluster together and that adolescents can respond differently to the pandemic, we examined adolescents' changes in clusters of health behaviors and its correlates during different phases of the pandemic.

Methods

A total of 710 Dutch adolescents (53% female; at pre-pandemic: M_age = 14.37; SD_age = 0.65; age range = 12.72 to 17.06 years) completed questionnaires on health behaviors (i.e., nicotine use, alcohol use, unhealthy food intake, and physical inactivity) before the pandemic (spring 2019) and during different phases of the pandemic (lockdown 1 (spring 2020),

SUBMITTER: van den Broek N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12797725 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature