Behavioral profile, lifestyle and social skills in Portuguese adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seventy percent of premature deaths in adults are due to behaviors initiated during adolescence. Therefore, it is essential to promote individual and social behaviors that educate adolescents in the ability to make healthy choices. Accordingly, the main goals of this study were to characterize Lifestyles and Social Skills, as well as identify homogeneous subgroups, in a sample of Portuguese adolescents.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted, including 1008 adolescents attending the 7th to the 9th grades of five middle schools from the Tâmega and Sousa regions of Portugal, and using the My Lifestyle Questionnaire and the Social Skills Inventory. To establish a profile of the participants, a Cluster Analysis (K-means) was performed, and the Jaccard coefficie

SUBMITTER: Magalhaes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7893771 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature