ANSIEDADE E CONSUMO DE SUBSTÂNCIAS PSICOATIVAS EM ADOLESCENTES

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Andressa Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1456
• topic: Anxiety; Psychoactive substance consumption; Adolescence.; Anxiety. Psychoactive substance consumption. Adolescence.; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The objectives of this study were to relate psychoactive substances abuse and anxiety, check the levels of anxiety and the most consumed psychoactive substances, and associated psychoactive substance use and anxiety among high school students from public and private schools in the city of Maceio. Students and institutions that participated of the research were selected by not-probabilist sampling for convenience. This was a study of correlational delineation. The sample was of 407 students, aged 14 to 18 years. The research was conducted in seven schools, being four of state public net and three of the particular net. The participants answered a sociodemographic questionnaire; the Adolescent Anxiety Scale (AAS); and a questionnaire about consumption of psychoactive substances. It was made the analysis of the relations between psychoactive substance consumption and anxiety by means of the Qui-Square test and Fisher exact tests. Alcohol was the legal substance most consumed by students, while the solvent, the most popular illicit substance by this group. The participants had a presented a greater percentage in the moderate level: 28%. There was a statistically significant difference between the consumption of psychoactive substances and moderate anxiety in adolescents. The use in life of solvents (p = 0,037) and energy drinks (p = 0,023); use in the year of cigarette (p = 0,043) and alcohol (p = 0,007); and frequent use of alcohol (p = 0,001) correlated with anxiety. There were significant differences between psychoactive substance use and anxiety in the types of school: In public school, there was a relationship between students who reported cigarette consumption in life and in the year, among participants who made use of solvents and energy drinks in life with severe anxiety (p = 0,022; p = 0,003; p = 0,010, p = 0,044, respectively); and among students who reported making frequent consumption of alcoholic drinks with moderate anxiety (p = 0,007). In private school, there was a relationship between students who drank alcohol in years with moderate anxiety (p = 0,011). The research found the need to carry out projects of health promotion and drug prevention that aim to increasing the reflection about lifestyle and anxiety.Ouvir