Practice and awareness of health risk behaviour among Egyptian university students

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 72-81

  Refaat, A ^a  

^a Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; PARENTS; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK-TAKING; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNIVERSITIES; UNSAFE SEX;

EID: 23844517041     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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