Less gambling, a worrying increase in alcohol use and a modest growth in the number of adolescents who use cannabis.
are the teenagers from Emilia-Romagna photographed by HBSC national study 'Health Behavior in School-aged Children' ('Health-related behaviors in school-aged children') 2022, created by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in collaboration with the World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe.
With a precise obiettivo: analyze i family and school contexts, habits and lifestyles on nutrition, physical activity, risky behaviors in adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 and, for the first time in this report, also in the boys and girls of 17 years.
The research involves sample surveys on a national scale every 4 years and that of 2022 is the first survey carried out after the pandemic, which therefore allows us to compare lifestyles before and after Covid. In Emilia Romagna were 4.204 young people were interviewed and girls (around a thousand for each age group), for a total of 234 classes: 109 for lower secondary schools (class I and III) and 125 for lower secondary schools (class II and IV); just over half are female and 5,8% of adolescents were born abroad.
44,2% of males and 20,7% of females have gambled at least once in their lives. (Depositphotos photo)
