FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND RISK CONDITIONS FOR DRUG USE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
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https://doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.40000Keywords:
Drug use. University students. Risk factors. Family environment.Abstract
Objective. To indentify family environment risk factors for drug use in undergraduate students from 21 courses at the University of São Paulo (USP), in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Methods. A multiple logistic regression model was constructed using data from 11 variables, in an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire, which was answered by 2,564 randomly sampled students. For the dependent variable ‘drug use’, the following drugs were considered: marijuana, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, amphetamines, anticholinergics, inhalants, tranquilizers, anxiolytics, antidystonics, opiates, sedatives, barbiturates, and anabolizers. Results. In the sample, the user (compared with thenon-user) is male (29.3%), 20-24 years old (29.4%), single (27.3%), work (28.7%), lives alone (34.9%) or with friends (36.4%), do not have a religion (33.4%), or at least do not practicise it (29.7%), have some difficulty communicating with his parents, particulariy with his mother (17.2%).This resuited in
a model that revealed a drug use risk profiie according to the characteristics of famiiy environment, in which 9 factors remained: famiiy income, parents levei of instruction, frequent use of alcohol by mother and brothers, frequent use of drugs by both parents and brothers.
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