SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.5 issue1Cognitive impairments in patients following clipping of ruptured aneurysms at Hospital de ClínicasBiological rhythm alterations and the presence of post-traumatic stress dis-order symptoms in the context of the 2020 dengue epidemic in doctors of the Hospital de Clínicas of Paraguay author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Medicina clínica y social

On-line version ISSN 2521-2281

Abstract

ARROM SUHURT, María Auxiliadora et al. Abusive of alcohol in adolescent students. Med. clín. soc. [online]. 2021, vol.5, n.1, pp.25-31. ISSN 2521-2281.  https://doi.org/10.52379/mcs.v5i1.134.

Introduction:

the harmful consumption of alcohol in adolescents is more and more worrisome in many countries, since it reduces self-control and increases the risk behaviors.

Objective:

it was proposed to analyze the abusive consumption of alcohol in 463 high school students.

Methodology:

descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional study in adolescents from 56 schools in the Department of Alto Paraná. Probabilistic, three-stage sampling, self-administered, structured and anonymous questionnaire, with prior authorization. For consumption level, alcohol abuse amounts from the National Survey of Toxic Habits of Paraguay were used as a parameter. Information uploaded to Excel database, analyzed with Stata. Results: Of the total of 661 in the sample, 70,0% (463) consumed at some time in their lives, 27% (182) did not. Of this total (100% / 463) 75,6% (350) consumed with 15 years (and less) and from 16 years, 19% (88). In the last year, 44,7% (207) consumed beer in an abusive way; 34,3% (159) consumed less and 17,9% (83) did not consume. Also 35,0% (162) consumed wine in an abusive way, 28,7% (133) consumed less and 32,4% (150) did not consume. In the last 30 days, 42,1% (195) consumed beer 򠁺busively, while 24,4% (113) consumed less and 28,9% (134) did not consume. Also 29,2% (135) consumed wine in an abusive way, while 21,4% (99) less and 43,8% (203) did not consume.

Conclusion:

abusive alcohol consumption observed at an early age in the study population and female consumption that practically equals the consumption of men.

Keywords : alcohol; abuse; adolescents; students.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )