Health and Social Difficulties in High School Students using High Amounts of Alcohol and Drugs: Implications for Screening
| Autor: | Theresa Fleming, Grant Christie, Arier Chi Lun Lee, Terryann Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Social Psychology
business.industry education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Alcohol abuse medicine.disease Mental health Comorbidity 030227 psychiatry Education Substance abuse 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Categorization Intervention (counseling) Environmental health Well-being medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business General Psychology Adolescent health |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse. 27:180-188 |
| ISSN: | 1547-0652 1067-828X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1067828x.2018.1443865 |
| Popis: | The use of frequency-based criteria to detect harmful substance use in adolescents is rare despite its potential to identify young people at risk. We compared high school students who use high amounts of substances to students with lower levels (or nil) of use across health and well-being indicators to explore the feasibility of this kind of categorization. Based on survey questions from Youth'12, a cross-sectional adolescent health survey involving 3% (8,500) of New Zealand high school students, we selected criteria indicative of substance use that would warrant specialist alcohol and other drugs (AOD) treatment. Two sets of “high-use” criteria (e.g., drinking “alcohol most days a week or more”) for both older and younger adolescents were selected. Eleven percent of students met criteria for “high use,” with higher rates in males and older students. Rates of high use were similar across high-, medium- and low-deprivation neighborhoods. Binge alcohol use (9.2%) was the predominant form of “high us... |
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