Health behaviors: is there any distinction for teachers? A cross-sectional nationwide study

PloS One
Fabien GilbertMarie-Noël Vercambre

Abstract

Health behaviors, as important modifiable determinants of health, are consistently targeted by prevention messages. Teachers, as educators and role models, may play a key-role in bringing such messages to children and adolescents. It is not clear which areas of prevention could be improved in collaboration with teachers to promote healthy behaviors at the population level through health education in schools. to evaluate teacher's health awareness, we compared their health/risk behaviors to those of non-teachers, taking into account demographic and socioeconomic factors that could confound crude differences. We used data from the 2010 Health Barometer, a cross-sectional nationally-representative French survey conducted by telephone among 27,653 persons aged 15-85. Adjusting sequentially for potential confounders, we compared six indicators of lifestyle and risky conducts (at-risk drinking, current smoking, cannabis use, gambling, corpulence, sleep duration) between teachers (n = 725) and two comparison groups: other occupations (n = 12,483) on the one hand, and other intermediate and managerial/professional occupations (n = 6,026) on the other. In the fully-adjusted models, teachers were less likely than other occupations to smo...Continue Reading

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Jul 2, 2019·Industrial Health·Matthieu DezutterQuentin Durand-Moreau
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Oct 28, 2020·International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health·Merle Riechmann-WolfStephan Letzel
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