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Adolescent type outpatient in an addictive behavior unit profile – child and youth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M.D. Ortega Garcia ,
M.V. Marti Garnica ,
S. Garcia Marin ,
P. Blanco del Valle ,
R. Gomez Martinez ,
M.A. Lopez Bernal  and
C. Martinez Martinez
M.D. Ortega Garcia*
Affiliation:
CSM Cartagena, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Cartagena, Spain
M.V. Marti Garnica
Affiliation:
CSM Cartagena, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Cartagena, Spain
S. Garcia Marin
Affiliation:
CSM Lorca, Psychiatry, Lorca, Spain
P. Blanco del Valle
Affiliation:
CSM Soria, Psychiatry, Soria, Spain
R. Gomez Martinez
Affiliation:
CSM Leon, Psychiatry, Leon, Spain
M.A. Lopez Bernal
Affiliation:
CSM Cartagena, Psychiatry, Cartagena, Spain
C. Martinez Martinez
Affiliation:
CSM Leon, Psychiatry, Leon, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Morbidity and mortality during adolescence is primarily the result of certain risk behaviors. Today, it is observed that early teens contact form with snuff, alcohol and legal drugs and not many of them have a high intake of these substances. Habits such as those mentioned on many occasions not only maintained during adolescence, but the rest of life extend causing major consequences for public health.

Objectives

To know the magnitude and characteristics of the use of legal drugs (alcohol and snuff) and illegal (marijuana, cocaine, heroin, inhalants) in the – adolescent/child – population who come regularly to addictive behavior unit of a rural environment.

Material and methods

Descriptive study of a sample of adolescent patients (n = 30) who came in the past two years to addictive behavior unit. Data collection of such patients is performed by assessing sociodemographic characteristics (age, sex, population, education level…), age of onset and type of use of psychoactive substances, and comorbidity of psychiatric disorders.

Results/conclusions

The average age of the adolescent patient is 14.5 years (SD 1.09) with an age of onset in the consumption of toxic 13.6 years (SD 1.03). As for sex, 20% were women. The dropout among adolescents of this sample is 43.3% (SD 1.05). A complete prevalence of marijuana use (100%), and mono-consumers only 10% was observed. Seventy percent of the sample has associated psychiatric disorders and 46.15% in psychiatric family history there; 38.4% up to legal problems are collected.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: child and adolescent psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S450
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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