Study of High-Risk Behaviors of Students and Their Related Factors (Case Study: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences)

Recently, threats to human health compelled the healthcare planners to make the physical, mental, and social health of individuals the priority. Despite the efforts made over the past two decades, studies have shown that high risk behaviors, as serious threats to community well-being, have increased among adolescents and young people (1). High risk behaviors are described as the behaviors that endanger the health and wellbeing of adolescents, young people, and other people in the community (2). In fact, such behaviors expose the person to negative and destructive physical, psychological, and social consequences (3). Drinking alcohol, drug abuse, smoking, hookah consumption, suicide, stealing, and sexual abuse are considered as the most important high risk behaviors (4). Although, several studies have been conducted on high risk behaviors, a few studies have focused on high risk behaviors of students, especially medical students. Findings of a study performed by Atadokht et al. demonstrated an indirect relationship between psychological well-being and high-risk behaviors. In addition, they revealed that high risk behaviors exist in male students and students living in dormitories more than the others (5). Parvin et al. showed that cigarette smoking, watching region-blocked sites and videos, and Abstract