Behavioral health risk factor profiles in general hospital patients: identifying the need for screening and brief intervention

• Main Authors: Jennis Freyer-Adam (Author), Florian Noetzel (Author), Sophie Baumann (Author), Ali Alexander Aghdassi (Author), Ulrike Siewert-Markus (Author), Beate Gaertner (Author), Ulrich John (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Little is known about the clustering of behavioral health risk factors (HRFs), namely the occurrence of 16 specific combinations of tobacco smoking, at-risk alcohol use, overweight and physical inactivity in general hospital patients. Furthermore, social inequalities in HRFs, hea...