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Participation in organized leisure-time activities and risk behaviors in Czech adolescents

Authors: Petr Badura, Dagmar Sigmundova, Erik Sigmund, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk, Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 3/2017

Abstract

Objectives

The study aimed to assess the associations between participation in organized leisure-time activities (OLTA) and risk behaviors, and whether the associations differed by gender, age, and pattern of OLTA involvement.

Methods

Data from the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study on 10,279 11-, 13-, and 15-year-old Czech adolescents (49.2% boys) were used. We assessed the associations between OLTA participation and risk behaviors, and modification by age and gender.

Results

OLTA participants were less likely to smoke, get drunk repeatedly, or skip school and, in contrast, more likely to get injured and fight repeatedly. The associations with lower occurrence of risk behaviors were the strongest for artists, while none was significant for adolescents participating only in team sports. Girls participating in OLTA had lower odds to smoke, get drunk, or skip school than boys, and these boys had higher odds to get injured or fight.

Conclusions

OLTA participation is associated with lower occurrence of repeated substance use and truancy and inversely with higher odds for physical fights and injuries. Girls, in general, are at lower risk when participating in OLTA than boys.

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Title: Participation in organized leisure-time activities and risk behaviors in Czech adolescents
Authors: Petr Badura
Dagmar Sigmundova
Erik Sigmund
Andrea Madarasova Geckova
Jitse P. van Dijk
Sijmen A. Reijneveld
Publication date: 01-04-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-016-0930-9

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Participation in organized leisure-time activities and risk behaviors in Czech adolescents

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Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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