Health Risk Behaviors for College Freshman and Strategies for Reducing Them.(Brief Article) From: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | Date: March 1, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Shelley Hamill and Maeberta Bobb, Winthrop University

College students, as well as high school students, participate in numerous activities that present risks to their health and well being. Incidence of alcohol and other drug use, tobacco use, unprotected sex, unsafe dietary practices, and other injurious behaviors have been well documented. This study was conducted to compare health risk behaviors of freshmen in a university to behaviors reported by other surveys and to develop strategies for reducing such behaviors. A modified version of the National College Health Risk ...

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