ABSTRACT Objective: to determine the prevalence of use in life and in the last three months of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine among university students from the social and health Sciences areas of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil and to evaluate the association between use in life and in the last three months o...
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the attitudes of residents in an urban commune of Concepción, Chile towards people with drug abuse according to drug type, personal experience and socio-demographic variables. Method: descriptive and cross-sectional study that examines the attitude of 121 people of five ...
Amaya, Cristina de;
Mann, Robert;
Hamilton, Hayley;
Erickson, Pat;
Brands, Bruna;
Giesbrecht, Norman;
Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto;
Cumsille, Francisco;
Sapag, Jaime;
Khenti, Akwatu.
O objetivo do estudo foi examinar a relação entre o uso e o abuso de drogas e maus-tratos durante a infância em estudantes universitários na cidade de San Salvador, El Salvador. Trata-se de estudo exploratório, de corte transversal, com uma amostra de 272 estudantes. Os resultados indicaram que 43% ...
Pizzanelli, Miguel;
Mann, Robert;
Hamilton, Hayley;
Erickson, Pat;
Brands, Bruna;
Giesbrecht, Norman;
Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto;
Cumsille, Francisco;
Sapag, Jaime;
Khenti, Akwatu.
Se evaluó la prevalencia del uso y abuso de sustancias psicoactivas en los estudiantes y su relación con las experiencias adversas durante la infancia y la adolescencia en una investigación de tipo exploratorio, transversal, observacional, basada en el autoreporte de 280 estudiantes universitarios. El...
The research aimed to clarify the relationships between spirituality, gender, and drug use among undergraduate students of one university in Barbados. A quota sample of 250 students was required from the Faculty of Social Sciences as the study was part of a larger multi-centric study involving students f...
Se examinó el efecto de las relaciones familiares, la espiritualidad y el entretenimiento sobre la relación entre la resistencia a la influencia de compañeros y el consumo de drogas entre estudiantes en una universidad en Manabí, Ecuador. Estudio con un diseño transversal, cuantitativo de tipo descr...
Drug use in our society seems to be a growing concern. Hence the concern of the ES/CICAD and CAMH to sponsor Multicentric Research projects for which this is one. This study therefore sought to determine gender differences for peer influence on drug use among students from one university in Guyana. A sur...
Tinoco, Lucia Isabel Solórzano;
Mann, Robert;
Hamilton, Hayley;
Erickson, Patricia;
Brands, Bruna;
Giesbrecht, Norman;
Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto;
Cumsille, Francisco;
Sapag, Jaime;
Khenti, Akwatu.
Investigación exploratoria que pretendió examinar la asociación entre el maltrato durante la niñez y el uso y abuso de drogas entre los estudiantes de una Universidad en León, Nicaragua. Mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario auto-administrado se obtuvo que el 51.6% de los participantes eran de ...
This study seeks to illuminate the relationship between family relations, peer influence, spirituality and drug use among students in one university in Kingston, Jamaica. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to collect quantitative data from 335 undergraduate university students, using self-repor...
Rodríguez, Marlon Osman Meléndez;
Mann, Robert;
Hamilton, Hayley;
Erickson, Pat;
Brands, Bruna;
Giesbrecht, Norman;
Castillo, Ever Téllez;
Gutiérrez, Luis Zambrana;
Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto;
Cumsille, Francisco;
Sapag, Jaime;
Khenti, Akwatu.
Las drogas ilícitas junto con el abuso sexual durante la infancia son responsables de una considerable morbilidad en el mundo. Los resultados del presente estudio muestran que el abuso sexual fue reportada por el 8.9% [IC95% (6.1%, 11.8%)] de los encuestados. La prevalencia del consumo de drogas ilícit...
