Socioeconomic variation in community risk profiles associated with health and behaviour problems in adolescents

直到最近，青春期的情感和行为问题往往被认为是青春期发展的正常动荡的一部分而被忽视；然而，对青少年健康和促进健康的态度迅速改变。年龄下降--烟草、酒精和非法药物使用的趋势使青少年成为促进健康的主要目标。促进青少年心理健康的实际潜力已经有了相当大的基础，对青少年心理健康问题的可改变的决定因素的知识已经通过越来越多的研究来检验社区样本中的远端和近端预测因素而取得进展。该项目计划全面评估澳大利亚三个州30个社区的当地高风险因素和抑郁保护因素，这些因素预测了一系列青少年健康和行为问题，包括药物滥用、肥胖和抑郁。这些社区将从整个社会经济领域中挑选出来，以确定我们社区的社会环境可能如何影响青少年的健康和行为。将对六年级和八年级的学生进行调查。每个参与的学生都将被称重和测量，并被要求完成一份调查问卷，该问卷全面评估社区风险和保护因素。

Until recently, emotional and behavioural problems of adolescence have tended to be dismissed as part of the normal turbulence of adolescent development; however, attitudes to adolescent health and health promotion have changed quickly. Downward age-trends in tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use have made adolescents a major target for health promotion. The practical potential for adolescent mental health promotion has gained considerable ground and knowledge of the modifiable determinants of youth mental health problems has been progressed by a growing number of studies examining distal and proximal predictors in community samples. The project plans to comprehensively assess locally elevated risk factors and depressed protective factors predictive of a range of adolescent health and behaviour problems including substance abuse, obesity and depression in 30 communities across three Australian States. These communities will be selected from the entire socioeconomic spectrum to determine how the social context of our neighbourhoods may influence the health and behaviour of adolescents . Surveys of students in grade 6 and year 8 will be conducted. Each participating student will be weighed and measured and asked to complete a questionnaire that assesses a comprehensive range of community risk and protective factors.