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Risk behavior in adolescence [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2001 OBJECTIVE: The present article reviews the methods and criteria used to assess risk behavior in adolescents. METHODS: Non-systematic review of scientific literature, as well as the assessment of the clinical and research experience accumulated by the Adolescent Outpatient Clinic of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. RESULTS: Physicians can apply
R B, Feijó, E A, Oliveira
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Behavioral response to phishing risk [PDF]
Proceedings of the anti-phishing working groups 2nd annual eCrime researchers summit, 2007 Tools that aim to combat phishing attacks must take into account how and why people fall for them in order to be effective. This study reports a pilot survey of 232 computer users to reveal predictors of falling for phishing emails, as well as trusting legitimate emails.
Julie S. Downs +2 more
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Depression, Risk Preferences and Risk-Taking Behavior [PDF]
Journal of Human Resources, 2019 Depression affects the way that people process information and make decisions, including those involving risk and uncertainty. Our objective is to analyze the way that depressive episodes shape risk preferences and risk-taking behaviors. We are the first to address this issue using large-scale, representative panel data that include both behavioral and
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark +2 more
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Cancer Risk Behaviors of Adolescents: Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data [PDF]
Cancer Control, 1997 The school years represent a time span of tremendous growth and development for children. These early years are an important formative stage for health behaviors. Children are constantly ex-posed to new situations, ideas, and concepts, and the habits they develop during this period have a lifelong influence on their health.
, Colwell +3 more
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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk
Zeszyty Pracy Socjalnej, 2020 Social defining of the risk behaviors is rooted in a diverse, multidimensional world of norms, values, rituals and discourses. Including social contexts of engaging in the risk behaviors and production of knowledge about them allowed us to go beyond standard cause-and-effect descriptions and examine these actions as an essential element of everyday ...
Michał Wanke +2 more
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Behavioral reduction of infection risk [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999 Evolutionary biologists have long postulated that there should be fitness advantages to animals that are able to recognize and avoid conspecifics infected with contact-transmitted disease. This avoidance hypothesis is in direct conflict with much of epidemiological theory, which is founded on the assumptions that the likelihood of ...
J M, Kiesecker +3 more
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Health Science Reports, 2022 Background and Aims Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are one of the major health concerns globally. Generally, prisoners are at higher risks for STIs due to risk factors including; drug‐use, high‐risk sexual behaviors, densely populated prisons ...
SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi +14 more
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Risk perceptions and health behavior [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015 Risk perceptions - or an individual's perceived susceptibility to a threat - are a key component of many health behavior change theories. Risk perceptions are often targeted in health behavior change interventions, and recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that interventions that successfully engage and change risk perceptions produce subsequent ...
Rebecca, Ferrer, William M, Klein
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Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicidal Behaviors [PDF]
JAMA, 2004 The relation between use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and suicidal ideation and behaviors has received considerable public attention recently. The use of such drugs among teenagers has been of particular concern.To estimate the relative risks (RRs) of nonfatal suicidal behavior in patients starting ...
Hershel, Jick +2 more
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Ebola viral disease: a review literature
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015 Ebola virus is transmitted to people as a result of direct contact with body fluids containing virus of an infected patient. The incubation period usually lasts 5 to 7 d and approximately 95% of the patients appear signs within 21 d after exposure ...
Saeed Reza Jamali Moghadam +4 more
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