Family mealtime against adolescents’ drinking, drug use, and other risk behaviours. Then and now.

Abstract

During adolescence, the frequency of family meals may play an important role in both counteracting risk behaviours (e.g., drugs and alcohol use, delinquency, etc.) and in promoting healthy life-styles. Objective. The aim of the present review is to chronologically order and discuss evidence supporting or disconfirming family mealtime’s effectiveness against adolescents‘ risk behaviours. Method. The present work integrated two search-strategies: scientific databanks strategies and retrospective research on sources. Inter-rater quality assessment was applied to obtain three clusters of literature; pioneering studies about nutritional habits, last decades’ evidence, and challenges for future research. Results. Effectiveness of family mealtime in preventing adolescents’ risk behaviours and in promoting healthy lifestyles and positive outcomes is discussed. Conclusions. Open theoretical and methodological questions emerged such as the lack of scientific consensus on how to measure the family mealtime frequency or the need to provide qualitative assessments about the family mealtime experience, among others.

Perfil Familiar Y De Consumo De Drogas en Mujeres Internas en Centros De Recuperación en El Noroeste De México

“…La literatura señala que es en la familia donde se crean las bases para el desarrollo de hábitos de vida, formas de expresar afectos, relacionarse con los demás, de resolver conflictos y de desarrollar conductas de autocuidado. Así, este vínculo familiar puede tener un efecto positivo o negativo en la incidencia de conductas de riesgo tales como consumo de drogas, autoagresión, violencia, depresión entre otras (Valenzuela, Ibarra, Zubarew, et al, 2013;Perasso, Carraro & Ozturk, 2020). Para Pérez & Sierra (2007) y Pérez & Correa (2011), la adicción en mujeres adultas es una manera de evadir problemas o acontecimientos estresantes provocados por situaciones familiares tales como separación de hijos, ruptura o conflictos de pareja, entre otros.…”