A Study to Identify the High-Risk Behaviour Towards Lifestyle Diseases Among Adolescents at Selected Schools of Sasaram, Rohtas, Bihar.

Health risk behaviour is particularly of concern during adolescence, mainly because this stage of development has been linked with increased impulsivity and propensity for risk taking that might result into disability and fatal outcomes. A number of risky behaviour begins in adolescence that affects health both at that time and in later years. Adescriptive cross-sectional research design was used for this study to select 100 adolescent students by purposive sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from the samples. The ndings of the study concluded that the high risk behaviour particularly excessive recreational screen time, poor diet, poor physical activity and poor sleep were prevalent among adolescents.