Objective
To analyze the association between socioeconomic situation, clinical characteristics referred and the family history of cardiovascular disease, with the Self-perceived health of young adults education and their implications for clinical characteristics observed.
Method
Analytical study conducted with 501 young adults who are students in countryside city in the Brazilian Northeast. We used binary logistic regression.
Results
The final model explained 83.3% of the self-perceived positive health, confirming the association of Self-perceived health with male, residence in the community, have excellent/very good lifestyle and does not have or do not know that there are cases of stroke in the family.
Conclusion
Health perception was often optimistic, being important to identify devices to be worked closer to their perception of their actual health condition, increasing the effectiveness of health promotion activities undertaken by professionals.
Cardiovascular diseases; Risk factors; Young adult; Students; Health promotion; Public health nursing