Towards a health promoting university: descriptive findings on health, wellbeing and academic performance amongst university students in Australia

Table 5 Risk Taking Behaviours for all students (N = 14,880) and by Local (N = 9,398) and International students (N = 5,482)

	Total			Local			International
	n	%	Wt %	n	%	Wt %	n	%	Wt %
Potentially hazardous drinking in past 12 months (AUDIT-C) [51]
Did not drink	2270	18.2	18.2	1091	13.5	13.6	1179	26.7	26.4
Drinks, but not hazardous	3823	30.6	30.1	1959	24.2	23.7	1864	42.2	41.4
Hazardous drinking	6407	51.3	51.7	5038	62.3	62.7	1369	31.0	32.1
Smoked cigarette in past 12 months
Yes	1580	12.4	12.8	1111	13.6	13.9	469	10.3	10.9
No	11167	87.6	87.2	7074	86.4	86.1	4093	89.7	89.1
Frequency smoked cigarettes in past 12 months^a
once a month/weekends	735	48.1	47.5	585	54.2	54.0	150	33.4	32.8
Once/twice during week	195	12.8	12.7	126	11.7	11.7	69	15.4	15.2
3 + times a week, not daily	230	15.0	15.0	151	14.0	13.9	79	17.6	17.4
Everyday	369	24.1	24.7	218	20.2	20.4	151	33.6	34.7
Used drugs (marijuana and/or other) in past 12 months
Yes	2341	18.9	19.1	2074	26.1	26.4	267	6.0	6.2
No	10058	81.1	80.9	5871	73.9	73.6	4187	94.0	93.8
Experienced intercourse (vaginal and/or oral) in past 12 months
Yes	6387	58.9	59.1	4644	65.1	65.2	1743	46.9	47.6
No	4461	41.1	40.9	2486	34.9	34.8	1975	53.1	52.4
Used condoms when having sex in past 12 months
Always	2350	37.4	37.9	1425	31.2	31.5	925	54.0	54.3
Sometimes	2191	34.9	35.0	1701	37.2	37.4	490	28.6	28.8
Never	1743	27.7	27.1	1446	31.6	31.0	297	17.3	16.9
Ever been diagnosed with sexually transmitted infection
Yes	628	5.0	5.0	523	6.5	6.4	105	2.4	2.4
No	11842	95.0	95.0	7541	93.5	93.6	4301	97.6	97.6

^aFor students who smoked cigarettes in past 12 months (Total students with a response = 1529; 1,080 Local students and 449 International students)

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