Psychoactive substance use, family context and mental health among Brazilian adolescents, National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE 2012)

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Prado, Rogério Ruscitto do⁴  Mello, Flávia Carvalho Malta de¹  Oliveira-Campos, Maryane⁴  Bomtempo, Denise Birche³  Andrade, Silvania Suely Caribé⁴  Malta, Deborah Carvalho⁴  Dias, Antonio José Ribeiro² 

[1] Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil;Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil;Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil

关键词: Adolescent;    Surveys;    Family;    Tobacco;    Alcoholic beverages;    Drugs;    Loneliness;    Mental healthINTRODUCTIONThe use of substances among adolescents may lead to numberless consequences that are harmful to health;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1809-4503201400050005

学科分类：过敏症与临床免疫学

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between the consumption of psychoactive substances (tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs) and demographic variables, mental health and family context among school-aged children. METHODS: The National Adolescent School-based Health Survey was held with a national sample of 109,104 students. Data regarding demographic variables, family background and mental health were collected. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the associations of interest. RESULTS: Multivariate analyses showed that alcohol consumption was higher among girls, drug experimentation was more frequent among boys and that there was no difference between sexes for smoking. Being younger and mulatto were negatively associated with the use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. Also negatively associated with such risk behaviors were characteristics of the family context represented by: living with parents, having meals together and parental supervision (when parents know what the child does in their free time). Moreover, characteristics of mental health such as loneliness and insomnia were positively associated with use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs. Not having friends was positively associated with use of tobacco and illicit drugs and negatively associated with alcohol use. CONCLUSIONS: The study shows the protective effect of family supervision in the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs and, on the contrary, the increasing use of substances according to aspects of mental health, such as loneliness, insomnia and the fact of not having friends. The study's findings may support actions from health and education professionals, as well as from the government and families in order to prevent the use of these substances by adolescents.

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