نبذة مختصرة : Objective: To estimate the prevalence of risk behaviors to health and its association with sociodemographic characteristics among adolescents in Aracaju and the metropolitan area, Sergipe, Brazil to the investigation and present evidence regarding the existence of intervention programs in physical activity for adolescents through of a systematic review. Methods: For the survey research, the sample consisted of 2207 adolescents (13 to 18 years) enrolled in public schools of the municipalities that make up the observed region. The survey information was held electing the following behaviors: "low levels of physical activity" and "watching time TV/day", through the PAQ-C, "drinking", "consumption of more than five doses of alcohol on a single occasion", "involvement in fights", "cigarette smoking", "bear arms" and "marijuana use", identified by YRBS instrument and "economic class" accessed for ABEP. For the systematic review, surveys were conducted in PubMed, SportDiscus, Lilacs and SciELO from keywords to population identification, intervention and outcome, with the DeCS and MeSH terms in English, Portuguese and Spanish. They included observational studies with minimal intervention six months, minimum sample size of 100 teenagers, written in any language and have reached the score STROBE ≥ 70%. Results: The highest prevalence was found for "low levels of physical activity" (88.1%), followed by "watch more than two hours of TV a day" (66.2%) and "alcoholic beverages" (38.0%). There are different patterns of risk behaviors sexes. female is associated with "low levels of physical activity" and "more than two hours watching TV." Male gender was associated with "weapons of transport", "involvement in fights" and "marijuana use". The largest age group of 16 years was associated with the "cigarette smoking", "drinking", "consuming more than five drinks of alcohol during" and "marijuana use." The highest socioeconomic status was associated with "weapons of transport", "involvement in fights", "drinking" and "more than ...
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