The influence of behavioral risk factors on outcomes of students’ health

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Introduction. Currently, there are not enough hygienic studies to identify causal relationships between health disorders and behavioural risk factors.

The purpose of the study: to assess the influence of behavioural risk factors on students’ health outcomes.

Materials and methods. The object of the study were one hundred nine students in grades 3–6. Questionnaires and comprehensive medical examinations were conducted. The research materials were statistically processed using non-parametric analysis methods, descriptive statistics and relative risk calculations.

Results. Data were obtained on the leading behavioural risk factors of modern students (physical inactivity, lack of sleep, unhealthy diet, low school satisfaction, high aggressiveness in communication with peers. Functional deviations and chronic diseases of the musculoskeletal system, nervous system and mental sphere, eyes and digestive system were formed among students. There were identified three groups of behavioural risk factors: 1) use of digital devices; 2) social wellbeing in school; 3) regime of the day.

Limitations. The study is limited to the study of the influence of only behavioral risk factors on the health of students, the time of observation, the use of self-questionnaires, which can lead to recall bias, affect the accuracy of data, with the possibility of overestimation or underestimation of data.

Conclusion. Quantitative dependences of the development of the most common functional deviations and chronic diseases in students on risk behaviors in the children’s population have been established. This indicates the importance of high levels of prevalence of risky forms of behaviour and their underestimation in the formation of pathological conditions and the need for measures to correct behavior dangerous to the health of children and adolescents.

Compliance with ethical standards. Research with the participation of students was carried out on a voluntary basis in accordance with the requirements of the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child”, with the provision of a sufficient amount of information available for understanding, in compliance with the ethical standards set forth in the Declaration of Helsinki, in the international ethical guidelines for conducting biomedical research on humans.

Patient consent. Each participant of the study (or his/her legal representative) gave informed voluntary written consent to participate in the study and publish personal medical information in an impersonal form in the journal "Gigiena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation, Russian journal)".

Contribution:
Kuchma V.R. — the concept and design of the study, editing; collection and processing of material, statistical processing, writing a text;
Sokolova S.B. — the concept and design of the study, collection and processing of material, statistical processing, writing a text;
Rapoport I.K., Chubarovsky V.V. — collection and processing of material, editing.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest. 

Acknowledgement. The study had no sponsorship. 

Received: August 26, 2022 / Accepted: October 3, 2022 / Published: October 23, 2022 

About the authors

Vladislav R. Kuchma

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)

Author for correspondence.
Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1410-5546
Russian Federation

Svetlana B. Sokolova

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing

Email: sokolovasb@fferisman.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5895-4577

MD, PhD, Leading Researcher of the Department of Hygiene for Children, Adolescents and Youth, Institute of Complex Hygiene Problems of the Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing, Mytishchi, 141014, Russian Federation.

e-mail: sokolovasb@fferisman.ru

Russian Federation

Irina K. Rapoport

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9989-4491
Russian Federation

Vladimir V. Chubarovsky

Federal Scientific Center of Hygiene named after F.F. Erisman of the Federal Service for Supervision in Protection of the Rights of Consumer and Man Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4587-4791
Russian Federation

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