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Cluster randomisation and design effects in school surveys: an exploration of the Irish Health Behaviours in School-aged Children data.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)
School surveys are typically conducted in classrooms where children are clustered and thus each participating student is not fully independent of others. Such unavoidable cluster randomisation increases the size of standard ...
HBSC Ireland: Child Wellbeing in South County Dublin
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-12)
This short report presents a brief analysis of the national well-being indicators for
children in the South Dublin County Council area. These analyses were matched with
randomly selected children of the same age-groups ...
Child well-being: children's, parents' and teachers' perceptions.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)
That chldren's lives be better understood is a necessary contributing step to the development of child centred quality supports, services and policies and it would appear logical that actively seeking out children's voices ...
HBSC Ireland: Physical Activity Patterns by Age and Gender
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008-11)
This short report presents a brief analysis of Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity
(MVPA) among Irish schoolchildren by age, gender, urban or rural location and
health board region.
Contraceptive use by 15-year-old students at their last sexual intercourse: results from 25 countries.
(American Medical Association, 2008-01)
Objectives: To identify and report cross-national patterns in contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents.
Design: A cross-national cross-sectional survey.
Setting: Data were collected in 2002 by self-report ...
Family, peer and school relationships as predictors of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in Irish adolescents: differences between sustained and experimental substance use.
(2008-09)
Adolescence is a vital period in shaping behaviour patterns. Substance use is one of the most commonly studies risk behaviours among adolescents. There are three mutually exclusive levels of substance use: non-use, ...
Diet and related behaviour of children from disadvantaged schools in Ireland: data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey.
(Cambridge Journals Online / The Nutrition Society, 2008-07)
In 2005 an action plan for educational inclusion, Delivery Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) was launched in Ireland to ensure the educational needs of children and adolescents from disadvantaged communities are ...
Family structure and children's eating patterns: secondary analysis of the Health Behaviours in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2002.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-10)
A variety of family and social factors influence children's eating behaviours such as availability of and preference for particular foods, portion size, cultural values regarding food types and preparation, parents' beliefs ...
Urban and rural patterns in adolescent alcohol consumption in Ireland.
(National Institute of Health Sciences, 2008-09)
Excessive alcohol consumption remains a substantial public health concern in Ireland. in the 2006 Irish HBSC survey, about half of students aged 15-17 reported that they were current drinkers and just over a third that ...
A process evaluation of the National drug awareness campaign.
(2008-04)
In response to the National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008 a national mass media awareness campaign was undertaken from May 2003 to December 2005 with the aim of highlighting the facts about drug misuse and increasing awareness ...