Prevalence of solvent inhalation among junior high school students in Japan and their background lifestyle: results of Chiba prefecture survey 1994.
To estimate the lifetime prevalence of solvent abuse among general junior high school students in Chiba prefecture and to understand their background lifestyle, in 1994 the author surveyed 6,795 students enrolled in 15 junior high schools. The lifetime prevalence of solvent abuse was 1.9% in males, 1.1% in females and 1.5% of the total. This implied that the lifetime prevalence of solvent abuse was decreasing year-on-year in males, had recovered to the 1990 level in total, but had stagnated between the 1990 level and the 1992 level in females. The regularity of daily life was more significantly disturbed in Lifetime Users than in Non-Users. School life and family life were significantly less relaxed for Lifetime Users than for Non-Users. Cigarette smoking and some types of alcohol drinking were strongly related to solvent abuse. More Lifetime Users than Non-Users were aware of harmful effects of solvent abuse. The author suggests that developing practical educative measures to promote behavioral change, as well as increasing the frequency with which the entire family eats dinner together, is necessary.
Wada
Kiyoshi
K
Division of Drug Dependence Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1-7-3 Kohnodai, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-ken 272-0827, Japan.
D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D012931:Social Environment; D012997:Solvents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors
D012997:Solvents