منابع مشابه
Indicators of rural youth drug use.
The relationships between personal substance use, health beliefs, peer use, sex, and religion were examined using data collected from 265 middle school students in rural northern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in January and February 1984. A positive correlation between peer and personal drug use was established. A relationship was also found between health beliefs and personal substance u...
متن کاملDrug use and risk among youth in different rural contexts.
This study compared levels of drug use and risk and protective factors among 18,767 adolescent youths from communities of less than 50,000 in population living either on farms, in the country but not on farms, or in towns. Current alcohol use, smokeless tobacco use, inhalant use, and other illicit drug use were more prevalent among high school-aged youths living on farms than among those living...
متن کاملDrug and alcohol use among youth in rural communities.
Characterizing variations in substance use by youth residing in rural areas is not a straightforward undertaking due in part to difficulties in defining rural, and in part to differences in community characteristics across whatever definition is used. The primary purpose of this chapter is to compare data on the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use by 8th and 12th graders across four sizes ...
متن کاملYouth alcohol and drug use in rural Ireland--parents' views.
INTRODUCTION Drug availability is increasing throughout Ireland due to a convergence of rural and urban cultures during the last decade of economic growth and prosperity. Rural Irish youth may now have a heightened risk for problematic alcohol and drug use due to increased exposure to drugs, urban contact with peer drug users, unstructured recreation time and poor parental monitoring. Rural par...
متن کاملCharacteristics of Indian youth and drug use.
The overall high rates of drug use found among Indian youth may be accounted for in part by lack of educational and employment opportunity and other endemic problems of Indian reservations. Individual drug involvement is most highly related to membership in drug-using peer clusters; but because of physical isolation, links between drug use and close friends are weaker for Indian youth, and fami...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Youth and Adolescence
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0047-2891,1573-6601
DOI: 10.1007/bf01537674