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JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages I31-I40Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr113
Keywords
adolescence; alcohol; illicit drug use; risk behaviour; sexual behaviour; smoking
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- Medical Research Council
- Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office under the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy
- MRC [MC_UP_A540_1108] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [O12345678, MC_UP_A540_1108] Funding Source: researchfish
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The observed clustering, and shared underlying determinants, of risk behaviours in young people has led to the proposition that interventions should take a broader approach to risk behaviour prevention. In this review we synthesized the evidence on owhat works' to prevent multiple risk behaviour (focusing on tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use and sexual risk behaviour) for policy-makers, practitioners and academics. We aimed to identify promising intervention programmes and to give a narrative overview of the wider influences on risk behaviour, in order to help inform future intervention strategies and policies. The most promising programme approaches for reducing multiple risk behaviour simultaneously address multiple domains of risk and protective factors predictive of risk behaviour. These programmes seek to increase resilience and promote positive parental/family influences and/or healthy school environments supportive of positive social and emotional development. However, wider influences on risk behaviour, such as culture, media and social climate also need to be addressed through broader social policy change. Furthermore, the importance of positive experiences during transition periods of the childyouthadult phase of the life course should be appropriately addressed within intervention programmes and broader policy change, to reduce marginalization, social exclusion and the vulnerability of young people during transition periods.
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