The relationship of sex and risk behaviours to students' use of school-based health centres in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Objective: Among other benefits, school-based health centres (SBHCs) are thought to provide opportunities to identify and help adolescents with risk-taking behaviours. The present study examined the use of SBHCs at three high schools in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, to determine the extent to which SBHCs reach students at risk, and whether there are sex differences with respect to this reach.

Methods: Self-administered surveys of students in grades 10 to 12 at the three high schools were carried out in May 2006.