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Table 1 Lifestyle factors, risk scoring methods and risk indices derived from the 2013–2014 Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (n = 2314)

From: Lifestyle risk indices in adolescence and their relationships to adolescent disease burden: findings from an Australian national survey

  

Risk indices

Lifestyle factor

Risk Scoring Method

Basic risk

Basic risk + BMI

Basic risk + Sleep

Basic risk + Smoking

Basic risk + BMI + Sleep

Basic risk + BMI + Smoking

Basic risk + Sleep + Smoking

Basic risk + BMI + Sleep + Smoking

Alcohol use

1 = 4 or more drinks on a single occasion in past month

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Illicit drug use

1 = past 30-day illicit drug use

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

Unprotected sex

1 = no protection used against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases the last time respondent had sexual intercourse

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

BMI

1 = Body mass index < 18.5 or > 30

 

✓

  

✓

✓

 

✓

Sleep

1 = < 7 h or > 11 h/day

  

✓

 

✓

 

✓

✓

Smoking

1 = past 30-day cigarette smoking

   

✓

 

✓

✓

✓