Substance use by adolescents in the Western Developmental Region of Nepal
| العنوان: | Substance use by adolescents in the Western Developmental Region of Nepal |
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| المؤلفون: | Suyen Karki, Eila Laukkanen, Marjatta Pirskanen, Anna-Maija Pietilä, Helena Länsimies |
| المصدر: | Journal of Substance Use. 21:98-106 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Health (social science), Tobacco use, business.industry, Psychoactive substance, Medicine (miscellaneous), Grandparent, Background factors, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 030225 pediatrics, Environmental health, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Substance use, Psychiatry, business |
| الوصف: | The health and well-being of adolescents is threatened by the use of psychoactive substances, such as tobacco, alcohol or other intoxicating substances. This study, carried out in 2011, explored substance use among 12–18-years-olds in the Western Developmental Region of Nepal, with 408 participants drawn from one urban school and two rural schools. Our aim was to identify the prevalence of psychoactive substance use, describe the related reasons, exposures and consequences and to discover the associations between substance use and various background factors. We evaluated the adolescents’ substance use with the Adolescents’ Substance Use Measurement and this showed that 10.5% of the adolescents used tobacco and 22.3% used alcohol and other intoxicants. Smoking and tobacco use was associated with gender, age and whether the fathers and grandparents smoked or drank and the use of intoxicants was associated with living in an urban area, the mother’s occupation and the father’s use of intoxicants. The ... |
| تدمد: | 1475-9942 1465-9891 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c80648db3268945625e1122059286565 https://doi.org/10.3109/14659891.2015.1005182 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........c80648db3268945625e1122059286565 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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