Elsa LavadoSICAD - Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências · Divisão Estatística e Investigação / Statistics and Research Division
Elsa Lavado
Senior Technical Expert (Statistics and Operational Research)
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Introduction
I'm a statistician in the General-Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD) in the Statistics and Research Division. I have been working in this field for many years, participating in several research projects (mostly quantitative) with different target populations, namely adolescents and young adults.
Participate in The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) and I'm the Portuguese ESPAD PI since 2019
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This report is another by-product of the Study on the Consumption of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Drugs and Other Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (ECATD-CAD 2019). It consists of an analysis of preventive approaches to addictive behaviours among public school students aged between 13 and 18.
This report is a by-product of the Study on the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Drugs and other Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (ECATD-CAD 2019) and focuses
exclusively on gambling.
Gambling is not one of the most expressive addictive behaviours among Portuguese
public-school students aged between 13 and 18. However, this is not an entirely...
This report is a product of the Study on the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs and Other Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies (ECATD-CAD) 2019, consisting of an analysis of consumption patterns of alcoholic beverages and other matters associated with alcohol consumption among public school students aged between 13 and 18.
This report is a by-product of the Study on the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Drugs and other Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies (ECATD-CAD) 2019. It consists of
an analysis of the problematic dimension among public school students aged between 13
and 18 years.
The analysis focuses on the prevalence of the experience of problems and the risk o...
The ECATD-CAD is a cross-sectional study carried out among Portuguese public school
students aged between 13 and 18 years old and which results from the application of the
ESPAD (European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs) questionnaire.
The ECATD-CAD has been held since 2003, replicating every four years, and in 2015,
the scope was...
This report consists of a regional analysis (NUTS II) of the results of the Study on the Consumption of Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs and other Addictive Behaviors and Addictions (ECATD-CAD) 2019, which the overall results of which have already been published in the national report.
The main conclusion is that there is a relevant discrepancy between the...
It is presented the main results of the study Perceptions and Social Representation on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Inquiry to the Youth present in Rock in Rio – Lisboa 2008. Considering a sample of 1.165 teenagers and young adults, one can conclude that drugs are con-sidered a serious social problem, although without generating much social alarm. Dru...
Results from a National School Survey carried out in November 2001, in a sample of 40000 students, from High School (grades 10th to 12th), representative at different geographical levels, are presented. Prevalences of use of drugs and other psychoactive substances, at national, regional and district levels, globally and by gender, are reported. The...