Simultaneous Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescents Associated with Higher Economic Class in the Northeast of Brazil

Table 1

Definition of the variables used in the study.

Variables	Questions used	Rating
Sociodemographic variables
Sex	What is your sex?	Male
		Female
Age	How old are you?	≤16 years
		≥17 years
Socioeconomic level	Characterized based on ABEP criteria	High (“A1,” “A2,” “B1,” and “B2”)
		Medium (“C1” and “C2”)
		Low (“D” and “E”)
Risk behaviors
Weapons possession	Over the past 30 days, on how many days did you carry a weapon, like a knife, gun, or nightstick?	Never
		One or more times
Involvement in fights	Over the past 12 MONTHS, how often did you get involved in a close fight?	Never
		One or more times
Consumption of more than five doses of alcohol at a single session	Over the past 30 days, on how many days did you take five or more doses of alcoholic in a single occasion?	Never
		One or more times
Cigarette consumption	Over the past 30 days, on how many days did you smoke cigarettes?	Never
		One or more times
Marijuana use	During your life, how many times did you smoke marijuana?	Never
		One or more times
Level of physical activity	Characterized from the PAQ-A score, referring to the last seven days	Active (scores higher than three)
		Low levels of physical activity (scores less than three)
Hours watching TV/day	On average how many hours a day do you watch TV?	Up to two hours
		More than two hours

Socioeconomic variables; variables on risk behavior; “Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Pesquisa,” 2015 [14]; YRBSS, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Brazil [15]; Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents, PAQ-A [16].