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Table 2 How to calculate the indicator: “total cancer behavioral risk” (principal result variable)

From: Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial to improve cancer prevention behaviors in adolescents and adults using a web-based intervention supplemented with SMS

Cancer behavioral risk

Points

Smoking

35

Not eating five servings of fruit and vegetables per day

20

Eating three or more daily fatty foods

10

Quotient “frequency of protection food/risk food” ≤0.9

8

Obesity/Overweight

15/10

Excessive drinking

5

Sedentary

5

Ultraviolet radiation exposure without protection

2

Workplace exposure to carcinogens*

5

Maximum punctuation in adolescents

100

  1. *Only in adults. 105 points in adults.