Universitários, ambientes recreativos noturnos e comportamentos de risco

Abstract

Introduction: The nightlife environments has been considered a potential risk factor for drug use and other risk behaviors related, like physical and/or sexual violence, criminality and problems in the road driving. Objectives: Investigate and describe the nightlife recreational habits and risk behaviors of college students from Federal University from Juiz de Fora. Methods: Applying of a self-responsive questionnaire and basic statistical analysis of the data. Results: The students have significant recreational habits, use alcohol and adopt the risk behaviors studied, with exception for physical violence. Final considerations: The young people attend nightlife recreational environments for having fun and, in short, they present a significant relationship with some of the risk behaviors studied.