The Simultaneous Presence of Health Risk Behaviors in Freshman College Students in Brazil.
The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and factors associated with simultaneous health risk behaviors in freshmen college students enrolled in a Brazilian university. We interviewed 738 students (59.2% men) with average age of 20.1 years (CI 95%: 19.8-20.5). The risk behaviors asse...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 591 - 599 |
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