PMID: 2483641May 1, 1989Paper

[Survey of alcohol and psychoactive drug consumption in a sample of high school students of the 9th and 19th local health units in the Marche Region].

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
F DonatoG Nardi

Abstract

A random sample of high school students of the Health Districts N. 9 and N. 19 of Marche Region, Central Italy, was interviewed about their alcohol and psychoactive medicine consumption. The questionnaire, previously used in other surveys in Italy, was anonymous and collected information on demographic and socio-economic status, smoking and drinking habits, psychoactive medicine consumption attitudes and knowledges on the health hazards of alcohol and psychoactive medicine abuse. A total of 237 males and 352 females in the 9th grade (mean age: 14.7 yrs) and of 131 males and 207 females in the 13th grade (mean age: 18.4 yrs) were enrolled in the survey. We observed higher alcohol consumption in males than in females and in grade-13 than in grade-9 for each beverage. Wine was the most used alcohol beverage: 30.4% of males in grade-9 and 39.7% in grade-13 were used to drink it daily, 13.7% of females in grade-9 and 17.4% in grade-13 were daily drinkers. In the youngest group, 6.8% of males and 0.3% of females drank 4 or more glasses of wine a day, while in grade-13 the percentages of heavy wine drinkers were 7.6% of males and 0.5% of females. On the contrary, beer consumption seemed to be more occasional: 55.7% of males and 33.6% ...Continue Reading

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