Health asset profiles and health indicators among 13- and 15-year-old adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined the associations between adolescents' health assets and various health indicators (smoking, alcohol use, sleep length, physical activity, healthy eating, oral health, self-reported health, multiple health complaints).

Methods

A nationally representative sample was drawn from Finnish-speaking schools, comprising 13- and 15-year-old adolescents (n = 3833). The measures taken covered the adolescents' health assets, which were labelled Family-financial, Psychological, Family-social, Friends-social, School-social, and Human. Our analysis applied two-step cluster analysis and multilevel mixed-effects binary logistic regression.

Results

Six asset profiles were identified: 'Limited in most assets, despite medium affluence', 'Mostly average assets, but l

SUBMITTER: Paakkari L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature