Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of drug use among adolescents: Results from the Mexican adolescent mental health survey

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1261-1268

  Benjet, Corina ^a   Borges, Guilherme ^a,b   Medina Mora, Maria Elena ^a   Fleiz, Clara ^a   Blanco, Jeronimo ^a   Zambrano, Joaquin ^a   Rojas, Estela ^a   Ramirez, Miriam ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Illicit substance use; Mexico; Youth

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; ILLICIT DRUG; TRANQUILIZER;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEXICO; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 34447125074     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01888.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Villatoro J., Medina-Mora M. E., Cravioto P., Fleiz C., Galvan F., Rojas E. et al. Uso Y Abuso De Drogas En México: Resultados De La Encuesta Nacional De Adicciones 2002 [Use and Abuse of Drugs in Mexico: Results of the National Addictions Survey 2002]. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional contra las Adicciones, Secretaría de Salud; 2004.
2. Medina-Mora M. E., Borges G., Fleiz C., Benjet C., Rojas E., Zambrano J. et al. Prevalence and correlates of drug use disorders in Mexico. Pan Am J Public Health 2006 19: 265 76.
3. Villatoro J., Medina-Mora M. E., Hernández M., Fleiz C., Amador N., Bermúdez P. La encuesta de estudiantes de nivel medio y medio superior de la Ciudad de México: noviembre 2003. Prevalencias y evolución del consumo de drogas [The survey of junior high school and high school students of Mexico City: November 2003 Prevalence and evolution of drug consumption]. Salud Mental 2005 28: 38 51.
4. Medina-Mora M. E., Cravioto P., Villatoro J., Fleiz C., Galvan-Castillo F., Tapia-Conyer R. Consumo de drogas entre adolescentes. resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Adicciones 1998 [Drug consumption among adolescents: results from the National Addictions Survey 1998]. Salud Pública México 2003 45: S16 25.
5. Villatoro J., Medina-Mora M. E., Rojano C., Amador N., Bermudez P., Hernandez H. et al. Consumo De Drogas, Alcohol Y Tabaco En Estudiantes Del DF. Medición Otoño 2003 [Drug, Alcohol and Tabaco Consumption in Students of Mexico City: Fall Measurement 2003]. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Psquiatría 2004.
6. Secretaría de Educación Pública [Ministry of Education]. Available at: http://www.sep.gob.mx/wb2/sep/sep_Cobertura (accessed 17 October 2006).
7. Latimer W., Floyd L. J., Kariis T., Novotna G., Exnerova P., O'Brien M. Peer and sibling substance use: predictors of substance use among adolescents in Mexico. Pan Am J Public Health 2004 15: 225 32.
8. Medina-Mora M. E., Villatoro J., Fleiz C. Uso indebido de sustancias [Illegal substance use]. In: UNICEF, DIF, PNUFID, editors. Estudio de Niñas, Niños Y Adolescentes Entre 6 Y 17 Años Trabajadores En 100 Ciudades. Yo Tambien Cuento [Study of Working Girls, Boys and Adolescents Between 6 and 17 in 100 Cities. I Count Too]. Mexico: UNICEF 1999. p. 7 39.
9. Dormitzer C. M., Gonzalez G. B., Penna M., Bejarano J., Obando P., Sanchez M. et al. The PACARDO research project: youthful drug involvement in Central America and the Dominican Republic. Pan Am J Public Health 2004 15: 400 16.
10. Miller L., Davies M., Greenwald S. Religiosity and substance use and abuse among adolescents in the National Comorbidity Survey. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2000 39: 1190 7.
11. van den Bree M. B., Pickworth W. B. Risk factors predicting changes in marijuana involvement in teenagers. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005 62: 311 9.
12. Chilcoat H. D., Dishion T. J., Anthony J. C. Parent monitoring and the incidence of drug sampling in urban elementary school children. Am J Epidemiol 1995 141: 25 31.
13. Chilcoat H. D., Anthony J. C. Impact of parent monitoring on initiation of drug use through late childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1996 35: 91 100.
14. McArdle P., Wiegersma A., Gilvarry E., Kolte B., McCarthy S., Fitzgerald M. et al. European adolescent substance use: the roles of family structure, function and gender. Addiction 2002 97: 329 36.
15. Fletcher A. C., Steinberg L., Williams-Wheeler M. Parental influences on adolescent problem behavior: revisiting Stattin and Kerr. Child Dev 2004 75: 781 96.
16. World Mental Health Survey Initiative (WMHSI). 2005. World Mental Health Survey Initiative. Available at: http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/wmh (accessed 17 October 2006).
17. Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI). XII General Population and Household Census. Mexico: INEGI 2000.
18. Kessler R. C., Üstün T. B. The World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Int J Meth Psychiatry Re 2004 13: 93 121.
19. Kessler R. C., Berglund P., Demler O., Jin R., Merikangas K. R., Walters E. E. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005 62: 593 602.
20. Simon G. E., VonKorff M. Recall of psychiatric history in cross-sectional surveys: implications for epidemiologic research. Epidemiol Rev 1995 17: 221 7.
21. Andreasen N. C., Endicott J., Spitzer R. L., Winokur G. The family history method using diagnostic criteria. Reliability and validity. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1977 34: 1229 35.
22. Chen C. Y., Dormitzer C. M., Bejarano J., Anthongy J. C. Religiosity and the earliest stages of adolescent drug involvement in seven countries of Latin America. Am J Epidemiol 2004 159: 1180 8.
23. Benjet C., Borges G., Medina-Mora M. E., Blanco J., Zambrano J., Orozco R. et al. Drug use opportunities and the transition to drug use among adolescents in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. Drug Alcohol Depend 2007 doi:10.10161/j.drugalcdep.2007.02.018
24. Robinson J. P., Shaver P. R., editors. Measures of Social Psychological Attitudes, revised edn. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research 1973.
25. Research Triangle Institute. SUDAAN, release 8.0.1. North Carolina: Research Triangle Institute 2002.
26. Hosmer D. W., Lemeshow S. Applied Logistic Regression, 2nd edn. New York: John Wiley & Sons 2000.
27. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Results from the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings. NSDUH Series H-30, DHHS Publication no. SMA 06-4194. Rockville, MD: Office of Applied Studies 2006.
28. Delva J., Wallace J. M. Jr., O'Malley P. M., Bachman J. G., Johnston L. D., Schulenberg J. E. The epidemiology of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and other Latin American eighth-grade students in the United States: 1991-2002. Am J Public Health 2005 95: 696 702.
29. Vega W. A., Alderete E., Kolody B., Aguilar-Gaxiola S. Illicit drug use among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in California: the effects of gender and acculturation. Addiction 1998 93: 1839 50.
30. Warner L. A., Valdez A., Vega W. A., De la Rosa M., Turner R. J., Canino G. Hispanic drug abuse in an evolving cultural context: an agenda for research. Drug Alcohol Depend 2006 84S: S8 S16.
31. Villatoro J., Medina-Mora M. E., Rojano C., Fleiz C., Bermudez P., Castro P. et al. ¿Ha cambiado el consumo de drogas de los estudiantes? Resultados de la Encuesta de Estudiantes. Medición Otoño del 2000 [Has the drug consumption of students changed? Results of the Students Survey. Fall Measurement 2000]. Salud Mental 2002 25: 43 54.
32. CICAD. Observatorios Latinoamericanos De Drogas, 2006 [Latin American Observations on Drugs, 2006]. Available at: http://www.cicad.oas.org/oid/ MainPage/Observatorios/ObservatoriosNacionales.htm (accessed 3 October 2006).
33. Van Etten M. L., Neumark Y. D., Anthony J. C. Male-female differences in the earliest stages of drug involvement. Addiction 1999 94: 1413 19.
34. Delva J., Van Etten M. L., Gonzalez G. B., Cedeno M. A., Penna M., Caris L. H. et al. First opportunities to try drugs and the transition to first drug use: evidence from a national school survey in Panama. Subst Use Misuse 1999 34: 1451 67.