Prevalence and pattern of substance abuse among school childern in nothern India: A rapid assesment study

Qadri, Syed Shuja; Goel, Rkd; Singh, Jagjeet; Sk, Ahluwalia; Pathak, Rambha; Bashir, Humaira

doi:10.5455/ijmsph.2013.2.271-280

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“…The use of substances increases with age and similar findings were also reported by other studies. [3,11] In the present study, substance abuse and dependence were found to be 8.33% and 5.13%, respectively. It clearly indicates that substance abuse and dependence have perpetuated the younger population to pose as another big challenge in the adolescent health.…”

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“…[9] In our study, the prevalence of substance use was found more among males than in females, which was in conformity with different studies. [3,[10][11][12] The use of substances among girls is largely influenced by the prevailing socio-cultural environment in this part of the globe. The use of substances increases with age and similar findings were also reported by other studies.…”

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Substance use among adolescents living in slums of Guwahati city, Assam: A growing public health concern

Bardhan¹,

Saikia²,

Baruah³

2015

Int J Med Public Health

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Introduction: Substance use has been a menace throughout the world for several centuries, and adolescents seem to be the most vulnerable group and the miasma of the slums adds to this multi-dimensional problem. Objectives: To study the prevalence and pattern of substance use among adolescents living in slum of Guwahati. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the adolescents living in slums of Guwahati, Assam, India during February to May 2014. Out of the total 90 slums, 23 slums were selected by cluster sampling method. For the selection of desired clusters probability proportionate to size method was applied. From each slum, equal number of boys and girls were interviewed to get a total of 414 study subjects. Statistical Analysis: Proportions and mean were used. Results: Prevalence of ever users was 37.68% and 35.02% were current users. Prevalence of substance abuse and dependence were 8.33% and 5.13% respectively. Gutkha (83.4%) was the most common substance used. The proportion of the substance users was found to increase significantly with age in both the sexes. The mean age of initiation of the abusive substances was 12.08 (±2.009) years for males and 12.38 (±1.803) years for females. The most common reason for initiation was peer pressure (73.1%). Shops were the main source of procuring substances. Conclusion: As significant number of adolescents is resorting to substance use, especially under the influence of peers, intensive peer group counseling is advocated. Strict implementation of legislations is emphasized, so that these young generation have no access to these dangerous substances.

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Substance use among adolescents living in slums of Guwahati city, Assam: A growing public health concern

Bardhan¹,

Saikia²,

Baruah³

2015

Int J Med Public Health

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“…It is higher than a study by Imran et al where it was found to be 17%. However it was less when compared among schools children of northern India in a study by Qadri ss et al where overall prevalence of substance abuse was 60.0% for ever users (14) . Prevalence of substance abuse among medical college students in a study by Datta A et al was 57 % which was much higher than our study.…”

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Substance abuse pattern among medical college students in Tumkur, Karnataka, India: a cross sectional study

Mir

Mahesh

Rajanna

et al. 2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Globally, there are 2 billion alcohol users, 1.3 billion smokers and 185 million are drug users. These are accounting for 12.4% of all deaths worldwide. The doctors are vulnerable to substance abuse due to their ready accessibility to the substance of abuse. Medical training is identified as full of stress and it is also observed that students undergo tremendous stress during various years of medical training. Repeated use of drugs can damage essential decision making and effect judgment of actions. This could be disastrous if substance abusers are medical professionals who have direct dealing with human lives. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted at a medical college in Tumkur district of Karnataka. A semi structured questionnaire was used to interview 379 medical students who were willing to participate. Results: Prevalence of substance abuse among the students was found to be 25.9%. Substance abuse was highest among VII term students (III rd year) which was 25.3%. Alcohol was the single most preferred substance of abuse which was used by 36.40% of students. Curiosity for experience (42.4%) was major reason for initiation of substance abuse. Majority of students (45.5%) attained the harmful substances through friends. 76.6% of hostellers used harmful substances. Conclusions: Prevalence of substance abuse among medical college students was high. Students preferred alcohol products and tobacco most. Hosteller students are more likely to be exposed to substance abuse.

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“…It was observed that with increasing age the prevalence of substance abuse also increased and was statistically significant (p<0.001), while no such trend was observed in our study since majority of the students were in the age group of 16-17 years. 13 Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) conducted in India in 2007 showed anxiety was present in 7.7% of students aged 13-15 years, cigarette smoking (1.2%), current tobacco consumption (3.6%), ever alcohol used was 8%, multiple substance abuse (1.9%). Estimated suicidal rate was 35.5/ 1 lakh population while details of suicidal ideation and of attempts were not available.…”

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Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Stress and It's Association with Suicide and Substance Abuse among Adolescents in Bangalore-A Cross Section Study

Chalageri¹,

Bhat²,

Sobagaiah³

et al. 2017

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INTRODUCTION: Adolescent accounts to one fifth of India's population. Investment in adolescent health will help India to reap the benefits of demographic dividend. Few of them are exposed to various health issues, out of which mental health is gaining importance. So the current study was designed to assess the burden of depression, anxiety and stress of PreUniversity college students of Bangalore and its association with suicide and substance abuse. METHODOLOGY: Cross sectional study conducted among 389 students of selected colleges of Bangalore through convenient sampling technique. Pre tested semi structured questionnaire was administered and analysed in SPSS 17. Depression, anxiety and stress among students were assessed through DASS score-21 scale. Fischer exact test and chi square test were applied to find the association. RESULTS: Mean age (±SD) of the students was 16.7 yrs(0.66) and 197 (50.6%) were males. Among 389 students 136 (35%) belonged to government college; 177 (45.5%) to private and rest to aided college. While 205 (52.7%) were in commerce branch, 133 (34.2%) were in science branch and rest belonged to arts branch. Prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress in past one week were 38.82%, 50.12% & 19.79% respectively. Anxiety was more common among females (p=0.001); private college students (χ 2 = 18.51, p<0.01) and among science branch (χ 2 = 17.88, p<0.01). Stress was

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Prevalence and pattern of substance abuse among school childern in nothern India: A rapid assesment study

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Substance use among adolescents living in slums of Guwahati city, Assam: A growing public health concern

Substance use among adolescents living in slums of Guwahati city, Assam: A growing public health concern

Substance abuse pattern among medical college students in Tumkur, Karnataka, India: a cross sectional study

Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Stress and It's Association with Suicide and Substance Abuse among Adolescents in Bangalore-A Cross Section Study

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