Titre : | Screening for "substance abuse" among school-based youth in Mexico using the problem oriented screening instrument (POSIT) for teenagers |
Titre traduit : | (Répertorier l'usage de substances psychoactives chez les jeunes mexicains fréquentant le milieu scolaire à l'aide du questionnaire POSIT - Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers) |
Auteurs : | W. W. LATIMER ; M. S. O'BRIEN ; J. MAC DOUALL ; TOUSSOVA O. ; FLOYD L. J. ; VAZQUEZ M. |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2004 |
Format : | 307-329 / tabl. |
Note générale : |
Substance Use and Misuse, 2004, 39, (2), 307-329 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE ; CONSOMMATION ; ADOLESCENT ; MILIEU SCOLAIRE ; QUESTIONNAIRE ; ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE ; CLASSIFICATION ; EFFICACITE ; DEPISTAGEThésaurus géographique MEXIQUE |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : Indices of classification accuracy of the Substance Use/Abuse scale of a Spanish-language version of the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT) were evaluated among school-based youth in Mexico. Participants were 1203 youth attending one middle school (N= 619) and one high school (N= 584) in the third largest city of Coahuila, a northern border state in Mexico in May 1998. More than 94% of youth enrolled in the participating middle school and 89% of youth enrolled in the participating high school completed the International Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. Indices of classification accuracy of the POSIT Substance Use/Abuse scale were evaluated against a "drug abuse" problem severity criterion that combined youth meeting DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse/dependence disorders with youth having used other illicit drugs five or more times in their lifetime. The present study findings suggest that using a cut score of one or two on the POSIT Substance Use/Abuse scale generally yields optimal classification accuracy indices that vary somewhat by gender and school subgroups. Further, classification accuracy indices of the POSIT Substance Use/Abuse scale are slightly better when used among high school males due, in part, to the higher base rate of serious involvement among this group compared to others. (Editor's abstract.) |
Note de contenu : | tabl. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 32 |
Affiliation : |
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland ; wlatimerjhsph.edu Etats-Unis. United States. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 404413 |
Centre Emetteur : | 04 CIRDD-51 |
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