Prevalence and determinants of resistance to use drugs among adolescents who had an opportunity to use drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As drugs remain ubiquitous and their use increasingly viewed as socially normative, vulnerable population groups such as adolescents face continued and growing risk. A better understanding of the factors that discourage individuals from initiating drug use, particularly in enabling scenarios, is therefore needed. This study aims to identify individual, interpersonal and school-contextual factors associated with resistance to using drugs in the presence of a drug use opportunity among adolescents in Bogotá, Colombia.

Methods

Data are analyzed from 724 school-attending adolescents (15.1 years, SD=1.3) who have had an opportunity to use drugs. Schools were selected in a multistage probability cluster sample. Random intercept multilevel logistic regression models were

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Quintero C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4361287 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature