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Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic led countries’ governments to rapidly establish lockdowns and social distancing, which altered family routines and the quality of family relationships worldwide.
Objectives
This exploratory cross-sectional study aimed to identify the impacts of the social distancing and lockdown in parenting practices of caregive...
Durante el confinamiento por COVID-19 (de finales de marzo a junio del 2020), se encontraron variaciones en el consumo de alcohol entre la población. Aunque varias fuentes de información en México indicaron que hubo un decremento en su consumo, en aquellas personas que incrementaron su consumo se presentaron mayores sínto-mas de depresión y ansieda...
Durante el confinamiento por COVID-19 (de finales de marzo a junio del 2020), se encontraron variaciones en el consumo de alcohol entre la población. Aunque varias fuentes de información en México indicaron que hubo un decremento en su consumo, en aquellas personas que incrementaron su consumo se presentaron mayores síntomas de depresión y ansiedad...
Determine whether parent characteristics and practices differentiate between substance using and non-using children in Mexico. Data consisted of 52,171 children (i.e., 5 th and 6 th grade) who participated in the National Survey of Drug Use Among Students. The relative importance of student reported parenting factors in classifying lifetime substan...
Background
There is a significant gap between the prevalence of child and adolescent mental illness in Mexico and access to mental health services, especially those that are evidence-based. School-based interventions can significantly narrow this gap.
Objective
The study evaluated the effectiveness of the interventions Dejando Huellitas en tu Vi...
Machine learning provides a method of identifying factors that discriminate between substance users and non-users potentially improving our ability to match need with available prevention services within context with limited resources. Our aim was to utilize machine learning to identify high impact factors that best discriminate between substance u...
Research suggests that parenting programs are effective for preventing behavioral and emotional difficulties in children, but a lot more attention needs to be paid to issues of context and culture during the development, testing, and implementation of these interventions. The views and needs of underserved and disenfranchised communities in the USA...
Parents shape their children’s behaviors and impact their developmental trajectories. Despite this, few studies have examined the potential relationship between child reported parenting factors and lifetime substance use and use intentions. The current study examined the potential impact of parenting factors (i.e., positive parenting, supervision,...
The United States and Mexico have seen significant increases in the prevalence of substance use among Latinx adolescents in the last 20 years. Research is needed to address rising national rates of substances use to inform the development of policies and intervention programs targeting Latinx youth. Our primary aim was to identify demographic facto...
Global health disparities continue to widen as professional standards for effectiveness of mental health services provision become more precise and difficult to achieve across varied economic and social contexts. Within the US, health disparities are evident in Latinx populations. Globally, the health disparities are also evident in Latin America a...
Relevant initiatives are being implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) aimed at strengthening a culture of prevention. However, cumulative contextual factors constitute significant barriers for implementing rigorous prevention science in these contexts, as defined by guidelines from high-income countries (HICs). Specifically, dissem...
Introduction:
Worldwide, binge drinking of alcohol has increased, especially among young people. In Mexico, various epidemiological sources allow us to account for the growth this pattern of consumption has had. Given this context, the Encuesta Nacional de Consumo de Drogas 2016-2017 (ENCODAT) shows the evolution in alcohol consumption.
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Introduction
Marijuana use among the student population has increased in Mexico and Latin America. There are social, interpersonal and individual factors associated with the onset and continuation of marijuana use. These include the availability of drugs in the community, opportunity for use, low perceived risk of harm from marijuana use and social...
AUD are a major contributor to the global burden of disease (GBD). According to the most recent publication of estimates, alcohol dependence was responsible for 1,111,000 deaths (0.21% of the total), an increase of 48.9% since 1990, and ranked 55th out of 106 causes of death. Overall, alcohol dependence accounted for 0.7% of the GBD due to prematur...
This article describes the process of cultural adaptation at the start of the implementation of the Parent Management Training intervention-Oregon model (PMTO) in Mexico City. The implementation process was guided by the model, and the cultural adaptation of PMTO was theoretically guided by the cultural adaptation process (CAP) model. During the pr...
This article describes the process of cultural adaptation at the start of the implementation of the Parent Management Training intervention-Oregon model (PMTO) in Mexico City. The implementation process was guided by the model, and the cultural adaptation of PMTO was theoretically guided by the cultural adaptation process (CAP) model. During the pr...
Introduction In the international context, Mexico is a country with low drug use level, in turn, it shows an increase when considering the most recent epidemiologic trends. In order to maintain an updated analysis of drug use in general population and to identify the most at risk groups, the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) was held in 2011. Obj...
Introduction In the international context, Mexico is a country with low drug use level, in turn, it shows an increase when considering the most recent epidemiologic trends. In order to maintain an updated analysis of drug use in general population and to identify the most at risk groups, the National Survey of Addictions (ENA) was held in 2011. Obj...
Introduction Since three years from now, in Mexico there has been several surveys and specific research regarding drug use. Over these years the national surveillance systems databases (SISVEA, CIJ) have shown that cocaine use has stabilized and marijuana use is still increasing, although there are some regional differences. Also, the results of th...
Introduction: Since three years from now, in Mexico there has been several surveys and specific research regarding drug use. Over these years the national surveillance systems databases (SISVEA, CIJ) have shown that cocaine use has stabilized and marijuana use is still increasing, although there are some regional differences. Also, the results of t...
Since three years from now, in Mexico there has been several surveys and specific research regarding drug use, Over these years the national surveillance systems databases (SISVEA, CIJ) have shown that cocaine use has stabilized and marijuana use is still increasing, although there are some regional differences. Also, the results of the 2003 Mexico...
Desde hace tres años se han hecho varias encuestas sobre consumo de drogas en nuestro país, además de investigaciones específicas sobre el tema. En estos últimos tres años diversos sistemas de información del país (SISVEA, CIJ) han mostrado que el consumo de cocaína se ha estabilizado y que el consumo de mariguana sigue en aumento, aunque estos asp...
La conducta antisocial es una problemática que surge por la combinación de diversos factores entre los que destacan la conducta turbulenta en la escuela, el consumo de drogas, el alcoholismo, la relación antisocial con sus pares, las alteraciones emocionales, el maltrato, los problemas familiares, entre otras situaciones que hacen a los individuos...
Antisocial behavior emerges as the result of different factors such as scholar problems, drug consumption, alcoholism, antisocial peer relationships, emotional problems, etc., which may in turn predispose to the individual to develop a pattern of antisocial behavior. The present work aims to determine the association of antisocial behavior between...
Prologo:
Considerados como la propiedad de los padres los
niños eran abandonados, aguados, explotados,
vendidos o hasta asesinados por sus padres sin
ninguna consecuencia legal, con esta cita de Whitcomb, los
autores del texto Jorge Villatoro, Nieves Quiroz, Maria de
Lourdes Gutiérrez, Martha Díaz y Nancy Amador, refieren el
cambio de valores en la...
Introducción:
Los principales estudios realizados para población adolescente y joven entre los años 2000 y 2003 indican que hay un incremento en el consumo de drogas, especialmente de alcohol, mariguana y metanfetaminas. Cabe aclarar que el índice general de consumo se mantiene estable a partir del 2001, sobre todo el relacionado con la cocaína. Ta...
Introduction: Research focused on drug consumption in schools has been developed in Mexico since 1976 and has allowed for a constant monitoring of this behavior in the population. The National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente (INP) and the Public Education Administration (SEP) have been the pionering institutions in these efforts, where o...
Desde 1947 en la Ciudad de México, con la finalidad de monitorear el consumo de drogas, alcohol y tabaco en la población de estudiantes de nivel medio y medio superior, se han realizado investigaciones, con intervalos de 2 a 3 años, sobre las tendencias y la evolución de la edad de inicio. Estas investigaciones se han llevado a cabo por parte del I...
El problema de la conducta suicida es muy complejo, ya que no sólo intervienen diversos actores, sino que también interactúan entre sí, haciendo más difícil su comprensión. Por dicha razón los profesionales de la salud mental están obligados a profundizar en el tema y a esclarecer las lagunas que se presentan en el abordaje de dicha conducta.
La co...
According to census data, Mexico is a country of children and youths. In 1995, 39% of the population was under 14 years old and 29.6% was between 15 and 29 years old. So, this population, ranging from 0 to 29 years, represented two thirds of the total population of the country (68.2%). The capital of the country, Mexico City, concentrated 9.3% of t...
According to census data, Mexico is a country of children and youths. In 1995, 39% of the population was under 14 years old and 29.6% was between 15 and 29 years old. So, this population, ranging from 0 to 29 years, represented two thirds of the total population of the country (68.2%). The capital of the country, Mexico City, concentrated 9.3% of t...
Las conductas antisociales aumentan su frecuencia principalmente cuando las personas llegan a la pubertad, manteniéndose durante los años posteriores, y por lo general desaparecen cuando son adultas. Para la mayoría de los individuos, no existe una motivación específica para actuar de esa manera, la conducta antisocial es temporal y situacional, y...
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El consumo de tabaco en México ha ido en aumento, de acuerdo con los estudios en población general (Medina-Mora, Peña, Cravioto, et al., 2002). Adicionalmente, se ha considerado que la edad de inicio en el consumo de drogas y, en especial, del tabaco ha disminuido; aunque no se cuenta con reportes formales que constaten dir...
