title: [Relations between family context and substance abuse in high school adolescents].
abstract: This study aimed to describe the family context characteristics of high school adolescents and their relation to psychoactive substance abuse. It is a cross-sectional and descriptive study, with a population of 657 secondary-school students in the city of Leon, Nicaragua, which corresponded to 31% of the research context. Data was collected through an anonymous questionnaire. Results show that 56% of the adolescents were living with both parents and 32% only with the mother, 86% declared a good relationship with the mother, but 24% did not show confidence in the mother figure. Regarding psychoactive substance use within the family context, 52% of the adolescents' family presented previous use events and, in 42% of cases, the father was the user. Results offer important contributions to design public healthcare policies and to outline prevention strategies for use among adolescents.
authors: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brasil. jaigarci10@hotmail.com
authors: Jairo Jose
authors: JJ
authors: Garcia
authors: Sandra Cristina
authors: SC
authors: Pillon
authors: Manoel Antônio
authors: MA
authors: dos Santos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult