Care of Risky Behaviors According to the Socio-economic Status of the Family: A Case Study of Tabriz City

Drinking alcohol, smoking, having unsafe sexual relations and violence are high-risk behaviors that are considered a serious threat to public and individual health, however, in some families, teenagers tend to these behaviors or some of them have experienced; But parents take care strategies to prevent the occurrence of these behaviors; Triple care strategies are family-based interventions, the most efficient of which is the process (procedural) strategy in caring for the tendency to risky behaviors or their control. The purpose of this research was the typology of strategies for taking care of high-risk behaviors according to the SES of the family.

This research was a descriptive-correlation quantitative research. The statistical population included all urban families of Tabriz in 2022, according to Cochran's formula, 384 families were selected by multi-stage cluster method. In order to collect information, two measurement tools were used (checklist of strategies for taking care of high-risk behaviors and questionnaire of SES of the family). One-way analysis of variance (F) and linear regression with SPSS 26 were used to investigate the relationships between variables.

The findings showed that the average strategies for taking care of high-risk behaviors are significantly different based on the SES of the family, and the higher socio-economic classes prefer more appropriate strategies (efficient, procedural or procedural) than the lower classes. To take care of children against risky behaviors.

Families with medium and low SES (which includes a high percentage of families) use relatively more ineffective care strategies (inefficient and occasional) to control high-risk behaviors; In order to improve the general health of the society and reduce the burden of diseases, it is necessary to adopt policies and implement prevention-based cultural-educational programs to transform inefficient care strategies into a (procedural) process.