Clustering effects of health risk behavior on mental health and physical activity in Chinese adolescents.
Xiangren YiZongyu LiuWenzhen QiaoXiuye XieNuo YiXiaosheng DongBaozhen WangPublished in: Health and quality of life outcomes (2020)
This study finds that a specific behavior cluster has significant impact on mental health and physical activity among adolescents. Integrating risk behaviors cluster with factors can be employed to target high-risk adolescents who have poor physical and psychosocial health. The research suggest that more effective and feasible school intervention programs can be designed to promote adolescent health-related behavior in terms of those pathways.