Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with
learning disabilities?

J 2017

Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities?

PALFIOVÁ, Michaela, Zuzana DANKULINCOVÁ, Daniela BOBÁKOVÁ, Ivo ČERMÁK, Andrea MADARASOVÁ GECKOVÁ et. al.

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Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities?

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PALFIOVÁ, Michaela, Zuzana DANKULINCOVÁ, Daniela BOBÁKOVÁ, Ivo ČERMÁK, Andrea MADARASOVÁ GECKOVÁ, J.P. VAN DIJK and S. A. REIJNEVELD

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European Journal of Public Health, 2017, 1101-1262

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Článek v odborném periodiku

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není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw201

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000404018800025

Abstract

V originále

Background: Reports from schools indicate that adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) frequently show risk-taking behaviour (RTB), but evidence is lacking. The aim of the study was to assess the associations between LD status and RTBs among Slovak adolescents and to explore whether family affluence and family composition have a moderating or mediating role in these associations. Methods: Data from the Slovak national HBSC study 2014 were analyzed. The sample comprised 1549 15-year-old adolescents (mean age: 15.4; 52.5% boys). RTBs were defined as early sexual experience, truancy, fighting, bullying, early smoking initiation and drunkenness. The associations between LD status and RTBs were assessed using binary logistic regression; the mediating as well as moderating role of family affluence and family composition was explored as well. Results: Adolescents with LD are two times more likely to be engaged in early sexual experiences (OR 2.39; 95% CI 1.45–3.95), fighting (OR 1.72; 95% CI 1.01–2.95) and bullying (OR 2.08; 95% CI 1.26–3.44), but not in early smoking initiation, drunkenness or truancy. Family affluence and family composition did not moderate or mediate these associations. Conclusions: Adolescents with LD are at high risk of early sexual experiences, fighting and bullying but not of smoking initiation, drunkenness or truancy. Non-intact and poor families do not increase the risks associated with LD status of adolescents; however, in these families adolescents with LD are more prevalent.

Citovat

PALFIOVÁ, Michaela, Zuzana DANKULINCOVÁ, Daniela BOBÁKOVÁ, Ivo ČERMÁK, Andrea MADARASOVÁ GECKOVÁ, J.P. VAN DIJK and S. A. REIJNEVELD. Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities? European Journal of Public Health. 2017, vol. 27, No 3, p. 501-506. ISSN 1101-1262. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw201.

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N2  - Background: Reports from schools indicate that adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) frequently show risk-taking behaviour (RTB), but evidence is lacking. The aim of the study was to assess the associations between LD status and RTBs among Slovak adolescents and to explore whether family affluence and family composition have a moderating or mediating role in these associations. Methods: Data from the Slovak national HBSC study 2014 were analyzed. The sample comprised 1549 15-year-old adolescents (mean age: 15.4; 52.5% boys). RTBs were defined as early sexual experience, truancy, fighting, bullying, early smoking initiation and drunkenness. The associations between LD status and RTBs were assessed using binary logistic regression; the mediating as well as moderating role of family affluence and family composition was explored as well. Results: Adolescents with LD are two times more likely to be engaged in early sexual experiences (OR 2.39; 95% CI 1.45–3.95), fighting (OR 1.72; 95% CI 1.01–2.95) and bullying (OR 2.08; 95% CI 1.26–3.44), but not in early smoking initiation, drunkenness or truancy. Family affluence and family composition did not moderate or mediate these associations. Conclusions: Adolescents with LD are at high risk of early sexual experiences, fighting and bullying but not of smoking initiation, drunkenness or truancy. Non-intact and poor families do not increase the risks associated with LD status of adolescents; however, in these families adolescents with LD are more prevalent.
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PALFIOVÁ, Michaela, Zuzana DANKULINCOVÁ, Daniela BOBÁKOVÁ, Ivo ČERMÁK, Andrea MADARASOVÁ GECKOVÁ, J.P. VAN DIJK and S. A. REIJNEVELD. Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities? \textit{European Journal of Public Health}. 2017, vol.~27, No~3, p.~501-506. ISSN~1101-1262. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw201.

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