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BMC Public Health
Awareness of health risks related to body art practices among youth in Naples, Italy: a descriptive convenience sample study
Research Article
Marco Guida1  Valeria Di Onofrio2  Roberto Mastronuzzi2  Giorgio Liguori2  Vincenza Alfano2  Caterina Mancusi2  Francesca Gallè2  Aniello Visciano2 
[1] Department of Biological Sciences, Section of Physiology and Hygiene, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy;Department of Studies of Institutions and Territorial Systems, University "Parthenope", Naples, Italy;
关键词: Tattooing;    Body Piercing;    Risk Factors;   
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-11-625
 received in 2011-04-07, accepted in 2011-08-05,  发布年份 2011
来源: Springer
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【 摘 要 】

BackgroundBody art practices have emerged as common activities among youth, yet few studies have investigated awareness in different age groups of possible health complications associated with piercing and tattooing.MethodsWe investigated perceptions of and knowledge about health risks. To highlight differences among age groups, we gathered data from students at high schools and universities in the province of Naples.ResultsOf 9,322 adolescents, 31.3% were pierced and 11.3% were tattooed. Of 3,610 undergraduates, 33% were pierced and 24.5% were tattooed (p < 0.05). A higher number of females were pierced in both samples, but there were no gender differences among tattooed students. Among high school students, 79.4% knew about infectious risks and 46% about non-infectious risks; the respective numbers among university students were 87.2% and 59.1%. Only 3.5% of students in high school and 15% of university undergraduates acknowledged the risk of viral disease transmission; 2% and 3% knew about allergic risks. Among adolescents and young adults, 6.9% and 15.3%, respectively, provided signed informed consent; the former were less knowledgeable about health risks (24.7% vs. 57.1%) (p < 0.05). Seventy-three percent of the high school students and 33.5% of the university students had body art done at unauthorized facilities. Approximately 7% of both samples reported complications from their purchased body art.ConclusionsResults indicate a need for adequate information on health risks associated with body art among students in Naples, mainly among high school students. Therefore, adolescents should be targeted for public health education programs.

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© Gallè et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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