Factores de riesgo para el consumo de drogas en adolescentes del consultorio de Medicina Familiar #3 del Centro de Salud Santa Elena. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: The consumption of drugs in the adolescent stage constitutes a growing focus of interest in research. Some conclusions of these studies point to an increasingly early onset of consumption. This research aims to work on a difficult but necessary issue, with the participation of the family doctor, so that it is feasible and relevant to carry out and is only possible from the Primary Health Care. Materials and Methods: Observational, descriptive and transversal research. Universe of 315 adolescents belonging to 197 families through convenience sampling. After informed consent, a written survey was conducted, anonymously and for a single occasion in consultation and community during the year 2018. Results: It was evidenced that 51.7% of the population is female, with 61% of incomplete secondary studies, 283 adolescents that correspond to 89.9% have low selfesteem, 20.5% have moderate-severe anxiety, 16.2% have a single-parent family structure, and 19.7% have family dysfunction. 32.7% of adolescents have consumer friends. The most consumed drug was marijuana prevailing in the female sex with 20%. Conclusions: the female sex predominated in the population, with incomplete secondary study and the Catholic religion prevailed. The identified risk factors, although they did not predominate, were low self-esteem, moderate-severe anxiety, family dysfunction, singleparent family structure, consumer friends, use of free time in bars and nightclubs and place of drug acquisition in school and street.