Table 1 Prevalence of individual and multiple risk behaviors among students in grades 6–10, stratified by perceived climate at home and school.
| Setting: risk behavior | Prevalence of frequent engagement in risk behaviour, by perceived climate (prevalence; % (SE)) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 6–8 | Grades 9–10 | |||||||||||
| High support | Medium support | Low support | High support | Medium support | Low support | |||||||
| Home | (n = 3726) | (n = 904) | (n = 199) | (n = 1506) | (n = 685) | (n = 187) | ||||||
| Multiple risk behavior | 2.9 | (0.3) | 7.6 | (1.0) | 20.9 | (3.4) | 9.4 | (0.9) | 20.1 | (1.8) | 33.9 | (4.1) |
| Smoking | 1.5 | (0.2) | 3.8 | (0.7) | 13.9 | (2.9) | 7.0 | (0.7) | 13.5 | (1.5) | 24.7 | (3.7) |
| Drunkenness | 5.7 | (0.5) | 13.2 | (1.3) | 29.4 | (3.8) | 31.3 | (1.4) | 42.8 | (2.2) | 61.2 | (4.2) |
| Non‐use of seatbelts | 9.4 | (0.6) | 13.6 | (1.3) | 29.1 | (3.8) | 13.4 | (1.0) | 18.8 | (1.7) | 27.6 | (3.9) |
| Cannabis use | – | – | – | 21.6 | (1.2) | 36.7 | (2.2) | 56.1 | (4.3) | |||
| Other drug use | – | – | – | 5.4 | (0.6) | 12.3 | (1.5) | 23.0 | (3.6) | |||
| Non‐use of condoms | – | – | – | 4.5 | (0.6) | 7.9 | (1.2) | 17.5 | (3.3) | |||
| School | (n = 2381) | (n = 1578) | (n = 697) | (n = 1033) | (n = 699) | (n = 272) | ||||||
| Multiple risk behavior | 2.0 | (0.3) | 4.6 | (0.6) | 12.5 | (1.5) | 9.1 | (1.0) | 15.0 | (1.6) | 28.8 | (3.2) |
| Smoking | 1.2 | (0.2) | 2.6 | (0.4) | 5.9 | (1.0) | 5.4 | (0.8) | 10.9 | (1.4) | 23.2 | (3.0) |
| Drunkenness | 4.2 | (0.4) | 9.1 | (0.8) | 18.3 | (1.7) | 29.9 | (1.7) | 39.4 | (2.2) | 53.3 | (3.6) |
| Non‐use of seatbelts | 7.4 | (0.6) | 11.8 | (0.9) | 20.2 | (1.8) | 11.6 | (1.1) | 17.3 | (1.7) | 26.4 | (3.2) |
| Cannabis use | – | – | – | 21.7 | (1.5) | 31.2 | (2.1) | 43.8 | (3.6) | |||
| Other drug use | – | – | – | 4.2 | (0.7) | 8.9 | (1.2) | 21.8 | (3.0) | |||
| Non‐use of condoms | – | – | – | 4.5 | (0.7) | 6.8 | (1.1) | 11.7 | (2.3) | |||
–, HBSC items were not assessed in this age group.