Using the Youth Risk Behavior Survey to Compare Risk Behaviors of Texas High School and College Students

Journal of School Health

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 45-49

  Wiley, David C ^a   James, Gay ^a   Furney, Steven ^a   Jordan Belver, Carole ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STUDENTS; TEXAS;

EID: 0031068493     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1997.tb06297.x     Document Type: Article

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