Risk perceptions and cannabis use in a sample of Portuguese adolescents and young adults

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العنوان: Risk perceptions and cannabis use in a sample of Portuguese adolescents and young adults
المؤلفون: Carmela Martínez-Vispo, Paulo Dias
المصدر: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 20(1):595-606
بيانات النشر: Springer Nature, 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: medicine.medical_specialty, Risk perceptions, media_common.quotation_subject, Population, Adolescents, Cannabis use, Perception, medicine, Young adult, Psychiatry, education, media_common, education.field_of_study, Illicit Substance, biology, business.industry, Public health, biology.organism_classification, language.human_language, Psychiatry and Mental health, Health psychology, language, Cannabis, Portuguese, business, Young adults
الوصف: Cannabis is the most used illicit substance worldwide, which has been associated with substantial adverse consequences. A recent trend toward a harmless vision of cannabis use in the general population has been observed. The present study sought to examine cannabis use frequency, differences according to cannabis use status in cannabis use risk perceptions, and the relation between risk perceptions and cannabis use in a sample of Portuguese adolescents and young adults (N = 721). The results showed that of the total sample 32.3% had ever used cannabis during their lifetime and 24% during the last year. In addition, those participants who had ever used cannabis perceived significantly less risk associated with cannabis use when comparing to never users. Finally, results showed that some specific dimensions of perceived risks for cannabis use were related to cannabis consumption during the last 12 months, 30 days, and 7 days. The findings of the present study suggest that cannabis use risk perceptions are relevant factors for cannabis use, which could inform for prevention-related efforts of cannabis use. Additional studies are warranted to examine deeply the relationships between cannabis use risk perceptions and cannabis use initiation and progression.
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1557-1882
1557-1874
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0cbb328a79334eb70e77861f227edc5c
https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/10631f87-4323-4c09-acb1-147fd130fa3f
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....0cbb328a79334eb70e77861f227edc5c
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE