The Association between Overweight and Illegal Drug Consumption in Adolescents: Is There an Underlying Influence of the Sociocultural Environment?

Autor: Valeria Siciliano, Sabrina Molinaro, Loredana Fortunato, Patricia Iozzo, Francesca Denoth
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Epidemiology
Eating Disorders
Overweight
Global Health
Social Environment
Body Mass Index
Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychology
Pediatric Epidemiology
Psychiatry
Multidisciplinary
Substance Abuse
Substance abuse
Eating disorders
Clinical Psychology
Mental Health
Italy
Compulsive Behavior
Medicine
Female
Public Health
Underweight
medicine.symptom
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Psychosocial
Clinical psychology
Research Article
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Substance-Related Disorders
Science
Peer Group
Education
Young Adult
medicine
Humans
Family
Obesity
Sex Distribution
Nutrition
Behavior
Analysis of Variance
business.industry
Illicit Drugs
Malnutrition
Social environment
Feeding Behavior
medicine.disease
Social Epidemiology
Survey Methods
Developmental Psychology
business
Body mass index
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 11, p e27358 (2011)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: BackgroundThe aims of the study were to: a) Examine the distribution of gender-stratified body mass index (BMI), eating attitudes and use of addictive substances, under the hypothesis of a confluent prevalence of weight abnormalities, eating disorders and substance abuse. b) Demonstrate the extent to which family, peer-related and psychosocial factors are common elements in categories of compulsive behaviour.Methodology/principal findingsIn the present cross-sectional study, data were collected through self reported questionnaires administered to a large sample of 33,185 15-19 years old adolescents (ESPAD®Italia), divided into weight categories based on the BMI percentile distribution. Multinomial analyses were adopted to address the influence of social, family, leisure time factors, Eating Attitude Test (EAT26) on the association between weight categories and drug use. Recent drugs use was more frequent in overweight and underweight adolescents (pConclusionThe frequent association of overweight and substance use and the presence of common underlying social factors, highlights the need for an interdisciplinary approach involving individual-focused treatment models as well as public health, social and environmental changes to reduce food- and substances-related problems.
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