title: [A survey of the knowledge and contact with drugs in the community of firstgraders in public and private schools in Ribeirão Preto].
abstract: This study refers to an essay concerning knowledge and contact with drugs among students, first grade, in private and public schools in the city of Ribeirão Preto, in different social layers. Looking for a better understanding of our data, we decided to work in this empirical survey with the concept of social stratum: a group of person with determined measurable features in common, that is, common status and that can be defined by distinct criteria. Schools were sorted according to the kind of student they had: after, schools were divided in four groups and we drew lots of each school. We used a questionnaire to collect data with opened and closed questions. According to data obtained we concluded that all students, no matter what socio-economic level, have a superficial knowledge about the subject: 48.2% said they knew people addicted to drugs in their neighbourhood; 8.8% of the children said they had offerings of drugs and the drugs were: cocaine, marijuana, haxixe, cigarettes and toxic pencil; and 63% of the remaining group said they never had an orientation related to drugs.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Ferriani
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spagnol
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: da Silva
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D013287:Illicit Drugs; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D013287:Illicit Drugs
vernacular_title: Levantamiento del conocimiento y del contacto con drogas en la comunidad de alumnos de 1er, grado de enseñanza pública y privada en Ribeirão Preto.