Health Risk Behaviors of Adolescents Living in a Small Municipality

Objective: This study aims to identify the prevalence of health risk behaviors in schooling age adolescents that live in a small population municipality of Bahia State over 2012. Methods: It is a cohort epidemiological study, censitary, school-based, and having a sampling comprised by 96 adolescent students enrolled in high school. Results: In high school were enrolled 134 adolescents within the age group from 12 to 19 years old, where 72.4% participated in the study. It was found that among adolescent, the average age was about 16.63 years old (SD +/- 1.63), where 57.5% were female, 78.5% were not employed, 71.1% were aged between 15 to 18 years old, 58.2% had self-declared brown as their skin color and 49.5% lived with their parents. It was also found that 60.8% experienced no tobacco consumption, 90.4% consumed some type of alcoholic beverage and 77.7% were classified as physically active. Conclusion: The results have shown the need for further research on risk behaviors among school adolescents.