Prevalence, Patterns, and Correlates of Tranquilizer and Sedative Use Among European Adolescents

Kokkevi, Anna; Fotiou, Anastasios; Arapaki, Angeliki; Richardson, Clive

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2008.05.001

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“…However, medicine use to treat nervousness was significantly associated with increased problem-gambling severity; specifically, the rates of ARPG were 3 times higher among adolescents who used medicine to treat nervousness than the rates that prevailed among adolescents who did not use such medicine. This result is in line with previous findings on adolescent substance use [7,9]. However, it extends previous research to the context of ARPG.…”

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“…Anxiety symptoms are often managed using prescription medicine (e.g., medicine for nervousness), and parents are inclined to provide these drugs to their children in an effort to ameliorate discomfort caused by anxiety-related problems [7]. Several nationally representative cross-sectional surveys have emphasised that the prevalence of medicine used to treat nervousness reaches 6-7% of 11- to 15-year-old adolescents, which is consistent across countries [8,9].…”

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“…Previous studies have found a robust pattern of association between risky behaviours (e.g., binge drinking and smoking) and medicinal treatment of nervousness [7,9]. Hence, it is possible that the use of medicine for nervousness acts as a risk factor for developing risky behaviours.…”

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Is Medicine Use for Nervousness Associated with Adolescent At-Risk or Problem Gambling?

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Objective: To examine the association between adolescent at-risk or problem gambling (ARPG) and medicine used to treat nervousness in a large-scale nationally representative sample of Italian adolescents. Study design: Data from the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey was used for cross-sectional analyses (a sample of 20,791 15-year-old students). Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a representative sample of high-school students. Respondents' ARPG, use of medicine for nervousness and potential confounding factors were assessed. Multilevel logistic regression analyses were used to test the association between medicine use to treat nervousness and ARPG. Results: The overall prevalence of adolescents reporting medicine use for nervousness in the last month was 6.3%. The odds of ARPG were 3 times higher among adolescents who used medicine for nervousness compared to that among adolescents who did not take such medicine (OR 2.96, 95% CI 2.07-4.25). Importantly, the association between medicine used to treat nervousness and ARPG did not vary significantly when viewed in light of psychological symptoms. Conclusions: Medicine use to treat nervousness is associated with increased risk of gambling-related harm.

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“…This estimate was similar to the overall prevalence found in 31 European countries (5.6%), ranging from 1.5% in the Ukraine to 13.6% in Lithuania. 16 Likewise, the last edition of Monitoring the Future, a survey conducted in U.S. schools, reported a 6.3% prevalence, similar to that found among Brazilian private-school students. 17 The findings of this study also suggest that the lifetime prevalence of nonprescribed tranquilizer use among students from private schools in Brazil is similar to the prevalence found among Brazilian adults.…”

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Nonprescribed use of tranquilizers and use of other drugs among Brazilian students

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Ferri

Locatelli

et al. 2014

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objectives: To describe patterns of nonprescribed use of tranquilizers by students aged 10 to 18 years and assess the sociodemographic characteristics of these adolescents and their use of other substances. Methods: A randomized and stratified sample of 47,979 students from state and private schools of the 27 Brazilian state capitals completed a self-report questionnaire. Poisson regression was used to estimate the associations between tranquilizer use and sociodemographic factors, as well as the use of other psychotropic substances. Results: The lifetime prevalence of nonprescribed use of tranquilizers was 3.9%. Use was most common among girls, wealthier adolescents, and those from private schools. An association was found between use of tranquilizers and lifetime use of alcohol (prevalence ratio [PR] = 3.15; 95% confidence intervals [95%CI] 2.58-3.85), tobacco (PR = 2.61; 95%CI 2.31-2.95), illicit drugs (PR = 3.70; 95%CI 3.19-4.29), and other prescription drugs (PR = 7.03; 95%CI 6.18-7.99). As the number of substances adolescents reported having used increased, so did the nonprescribed use of tranquilizers. Conclusions: Nonprescribed use of tranquilizers by adolescents might indicate the use of other substances, including high-risk combinations such as tranquilizers and alcohol. The risks of this association should be addressed during the early stages of drug prevention programs.

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“…Kokkevi et al 2007aKokkevi et al , 2007bKokkevi et al , 2008, followed by specially focused country studies (e.g. Choquet 2008; Gunnlaugsson et al 2011;Kraus, Metzner, and Piontek 2010;Miller and Plant 2002;Pape, Rossow, and Storvol 2009, etc.…”

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Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries

Spilková

2013

Children's Geographies

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In Central and Eastern Europe (CE), alcohol consumption, smoking, and substance use have become a substantial problem mainly among young people as well as changes of their leisure time occupations. The paper uses the binary logistic regression to measure the association between a certain type of leisure occupations and health-risk behaviors to show which activities are the most prone to health-risk behaviors. The analysis shows one prominent result -the strong relation between health-risk behavior of teenagers and going out in the evenings in the CE countries. There are, however, some specific protective factors of teenage risk behavior; these could be used to focus anti-risk behavior campaigns aimed at teenagers.

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Prevalence, Patterns, and Correlates of Tranquilizer and Sedative Use Among European Adolescents

Cited by 56 publications

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Is Medicine Use for Nervousness Associated with Adolescent At-Risk or Problem Gambling?

Is Medicine Use for Nervousness Associated with Adolescent At-Risk or Problem Gambling?

Nonprescribed use of tranquilizers and use of other drugs among Brazilian students

Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries

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