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| Title |
Opinions and beliefs held by Spanish teenagers regarding tobacco and alcohol consumption: a descriptive study
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-1417-y |
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| Authors |
Roger Ruiz-Moral, Sara Palenzuela-Paniagua, Rosa Magallón-Botaya, Celia Jiménez-García, Jose Angel Fernández García, Luis Angel Pérula de Torres |
| Abstract |
BackgroundPreventive strategies are the most effective approach for dealing with issues of substance abuse, particularly in teenagers. Such strategies adapt well to this target population. Our objective was to reveal the opinions and beliefs held by teenagers about tobacco and alcohol as types of drugs, and their effects on health.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, participants completed a self-administered questionnaire based on the World Health Organization ¿Health Behaviour of School-aged Children¿ study. Our sample included 1,005 schoolchildren aged between 11 and 13 years, resident in the province of Córdoba in Spain. Descriptive and univariate analyses were performed using a chi-squared test.ResultsOf respondents, 25% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 22.2¿27.6%) and 61% (95% CI: 58.0¿64.1%), respectively, did not consider tobacco or alcohol to be drugs. No relationship was found between tobacco and alcohol use, and the belief that these are drugs (p¿=¿0.477 and p¿=¿0.217, respectively). A total 98.2% of adolescents surveyed (95% CI: 97.3¿99.1%) believed that tobacco causes physical damage, mainly to the lungs, heart, and to the developing fetus. Additionally, 92.4% (95% CI: 90.6¿94.0%) believed that alcohol is detrimental to health and identified the liver as the organ most frequently damaged by alcohol consumption. The media was identified as the main source of information about these substances by 78.0% of respondents (95% CI: 75.4¿80.6%).ConclusionsTeenagers possess an acceptable level of knowledge and information about the negative effects of tobacco and alcohol on health; however, many of them do not consider these substances to be drugs. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 25% |
| Spain | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 47 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 47 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 11% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 7 | 15% |
| Unknown | 18 | 38% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 11% |
| Psychology | 3 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 21 | 45% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 November 2015.
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#13,347,541
of 22,783,848 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#9,460
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#172,662
of 353,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#139
of 222 outputs
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