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Examining School Connectedness and Educational Aspirations as Protective Factors for Alcohol Use among Adolescents in Uruguay
Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Elizabeth Kiehne, David Alarcón, Carlos Libisch
In Uruguay, alcohol use is pervasive among adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (past year use: ~ 60%, past month use: ~ 40%)...
The Co-Occurrence of Violence and Substance Use among Mexican Adolescents
Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Paul Smokowski, Anaid Gonzalvez
The rise and spread of violence in Mexico is an urgent concern given its unsettling, widespread and accelerating impact on communities. Experiencing...
Prevalence of Teen Dating Violence and Its Association to Substance Use in Nicaraguan Early Adolescents
Vi D. Le, Jonathan Pettigrew, Jeff R. Temple
Background: Teen dating violence is a significant public health issue with potentially severe mental, physical, and psychosocial health consequences. Much of the literature on dating violence...
Psychological Distress, Family Functioning and Use of Psychoactive Substances in Administrative Workers of an Institution of Higher Education in Nicaragua
Alinka Patricia Avendaño Balladares
Introduction: Professionals in the field of mental health and addictions try to identify situations that cause psychoactive substances use in the population, especially the working population, due to...
Prevalence and Risk of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in Basic Education Students in Three Public Schools in El Salvador
Fabio Bautista-Pérez
Introduction: In El Salvador, according to studies the most consumed legal drugs are alcohol, tobacco and cannabis that is illegal, which is according to studies conducted in various parts of the world. In the...
Influence of Cumulative Contextual Risk on Academic Performance and Substance Abuse
W. Alex Mason, Mary B. Chmelka, Stacy-Ann A. January, Jukka Savolainen
Introduction: Children exposed to cumulative contextual risk (CCR) are vulnerable to experiencing adverse outcomes, including academic failure as well as substance...
Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Is the Most Essential Intervention among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) to Achieve Reduction HIV Transmission through Pwid to Others in Myanmar
Rosie Myint, Wah Wah Lwin
Background: There is a sustained downward trend in HIV prevalence among the sentinel groups which include People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) reflecting the effectiveness of programme for safer sexual behaviors and...
په پاکستانی نارینه و وو کې د نشه یی توکو د کارولو تړاو
سلمان شهزاد ، ونډی لی کولیور ، مظفر علی ، ناصرین بیګم
د مادې استعمال په پاکستان کې د پام وړ ستونزه ده، په ځانګړې توګه د نارینه ځوانانو په منځ کې، خو په دې خلکو کې د استعمال د تړاو په اړه لږ مطالعات شتون لری. د مخنیوی په پړاو کې د لومړی...
The Role of Health Literacy in Quitting Tobacco in Indonesia
Nicole Johnson, Sri Handayani, John Parrish-Sprowl
Introduction: Within the past few years, Indonesia Ministry of Health and government have begun to push toward more anti-tobacco initiatives by sponsoring mass media campaigns and...
د سګرټ څښلو او الکول مصرف کې د جنډر او سیمه ایز توپیرونه
Jinsong Tang، Yanhui Liao
پېژندنه: په عمومی توګه، په نارینه چینایی کې د سګرټ څښلو او الکول مصرف د ښځینه چینایانو په پرتله لوړ دی. په هرصورت ، د چین په مینځ کې د سګرټ څښلو او الکول مصرف کې د سیمه ایز توپیرونو په اړه لږ څه پیژندل شوی.
...په هغو کسانو کې روانی نښې نښانې چې د میتافتامین په مقابل کې کیټامین کاروی
Yanhui Liao
پیژندنه: د کیټامین ("K پاؤډر") او میتامپیټامین (MA ، "ایس") اوږدمهاله کارول کولی شی روانی نښې رامینځته کړی. د دې مطالعې هدف د مزمن کیټامین کاروونکو او MA کاروونکو کې د مخدره توکو لخوا هڅول شوی روانی نښې وپلټئ.
میتودونه: م...
Risk and Resilience among Out-Of-School Youth in South Africa
Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Renette J Blignaut, Innocent Karangwa, Elizabeth Weybright, Linda Lee Caldwell, Edward Allan Smith
South African youth experience many challenges including unemployment, poverty, disorganised families, health...
PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse
Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in...
Universal School-Based Implementation of Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment to Reduce and Prevent Alcohol, Marijuana, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use
Abstract
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based approach to reducing substance use in adolescents. An emerging literature shows the promise of school-based SBIRT. However, most school-based...
Factores de riesgo/protección y los programas preventivos en drogodependencias en el Perú
Los factores de riesgo/protección (fRP) representan elementos fundamentales para el análisis, comprensión y formulación de respuestas preventivas de las drogodependencias. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar una revisión de la...
Socioeconomic Disparities in Smoking Behavior and Early Smoking Initiation among Men in Malawi
Abstract
Background:
Tobacco smoking is a growing concern for health care systems as it is projected to become the leading cause of death in the developing world. Knowledge of how smoking behavior differs across socioeconomic...
د شېشې وختی استعمال او د روانی ناآرامۍ د ودې سره د هغې ارتباط
خلاصه :
شالید : په نړۍ کې تر ټولو زیات کارول شوی غیر قانونی نشه یی توکی دی. دواړه یو وختی بنابی د پیل څخه کار اخلی او هغه اندازه چې کارول کیږی په لویوالی کې د روانی ناروغیو له خطر سره مرسته کوی.
هدف : د هغو عمری مطالعاتو بیا کتنه چې...
د کینابیس کارولو اختلال تشخیص کې جنسی توپیرونه په متحده ایالاتو کې روغتونونو کې شامل دی
خلاصه
هدفونه: مطالعې د بنګ کارولو اختلال (CUD) تشخیص په رجحان او کلینیکی ځانګړتیاو کې د جنسی توپیرونو معاینه کړې چې د لویانو ناروغانو ترمنځ په روغتون کې بستری کیدل شامل دی.
میتودونه: موږ د 2007-2011 ملی روغتونونو څخه د روغتون ډاټا...
Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco
'Million Hearts' is an initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by promoting evidence-based intervention through communities, health systems, non-profit...
Reviewing Inclusion Health: An Intervention Programme for At-Risk Populations
Inclusion Health is a framework for action that helps find ways of improving the health and well-being for socially excluded groups. These populations, who have in common adverse life experiences and risk factors, such as poverty and...
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