Increasing understanding of the risk and protective factors for adolescent nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) could inform prevention efforts. Several correlates have been identified, including parental factors, perceptions about use and accessibility, social norms, and age. However, these constructs have rarely been simultaneously examined using paired data from parents and adolescents. We aimed to examine the relative influence of these correlates among dyads (N = 349) of mothers and adolescent daughters. Using multiple logistic regression, daughters’ past NMUPD and inclination for future NMUPD were regressed onto descriptive norms for friend use, perceived drug accessibility and risk of harm from use, daughter age, mothers’ disapproval about use, mothers’ past NMUPD and inclination for future NMUPD, and the mother-daughter relationship quality. Akaike weights and lasso regressions were also estimated to evaluate the relative importance of each correlate. Higher descriptive norms for friend use, older age, and mothers’ inclination for NMUPD were risk factors for daughters’ NMUPD, while a closer mother-daughter relationship and mothers’ disapproving attitudes towards NMUPD were protective factors. The three analysis approaches were corroborative. Results suggest friend descriptive norms, mother-daughter relationship quality, and mothers’ attitudes about NMUPD are important prevention targets.

Background: Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) refers to the use of prescription drugs which are traditionally utilized to manage pain or treat psychiatric problems but without a doctor’s prescription. In 2010, an investigation by the Substance Use and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) revealed that 5.3% of young adults (18 to 25-year-olds) in the United States reported past-month NMUPD. NMUPD has become a growing concern owing to associations with consequences such as college dropout, poor academic achievement, and health jeopardizing behaviors. College students' NMUPD has been well documented in the United States. Limited studies, however, have been conducted among college students in China. The purposes of this study are to examine the prevalence and motives of NMUPD among college students in China, and to assess its relationship with stress (i.e., perceived stress and traumatic events), mental health problems (depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)), utilization of healthcare, cultural orientation, and protective factors (i.e., resilience and future orientation). Methods: In Jan-April 2017, online data were collected using SONA system from a total of 720 undergraduates at Beijing Normal University (BNU) and University of Macau (UM) with an average age of 19.65. All participants reported their nonmedical use of prescription drugs (i.e., opioids, sedatives, stimulants, and anxiolytics) in their lifetime and the past three months, stress, mental health, utilization of healthcare, cultural orientation, and protective factors. Spearman’s rank-order corrections and logistic regression were employed for statistical analyses. Results: Findings indicate that 41.2% of Chinese students reported taking prescription drugs without a doctor’s prescription. The most commonly misused prescription drugs were opioids (40.5% lifetime use, 31.8% past-three-months use), followed by sedatives (1.8% lifetime, 0.8% past 3 months), anxiolytics (0.9% lifetime,0 .3% past three months), and stimulants (0.2% lifetime, 0% past three months). Bivariate analyses suggest significantly positive correlations of lifetime NMUPD with mental health problems (anxiety and PTSD), cultural orientation (individualism and collectivism), and utilization of healthcare (frequency of healthcare use, time spent for healthcare, and money spent for healthcare). Similar results were found in terms of past-three-month NMUPD. The results of logistic regressions indicate the significant association of lifetime NMUPD with individualism of cultural orientation, and frequency of healthcare use. Specially, individualism, frequency of healthcare use, and time spent for healthcare were found to be associated with lifetime opioid misuse, and depression was significantly associated with sedative misuse. Resilience was negatively associated with lifetime sedative misuse. Frequency of healthcare use was also found to be positively associated with past-three-month opioid misuse. Conclusion: Utilization of healthcare, cultural orientation, and mental health problems appear to be the factors associated with NMUPD among college students at BNU and UM. More discussion is needed in Chinese society about regulation of prescription drug use. Future culturally-tailored prevention intervention programs may be beneficial to reduce the risk of NMUPD among Chinese college students.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Multidisciplinary Residences Program in health search to transform the pratics of public services of Brazilian Health through of the formation in service of professional according to the principles of the Health Unic System. For this, it s necessary the involvement of the professionals in formation with the workers in service and the teachers of educational institutions in order to integrate the scientific knowledge, theoretical and practical. Thus, this research aimed to analyze the conception of teachers of a Multidisciplinary Residence Program in health about the teaching- service integration in the formation of residents; know development and the strategies used by teachers of the Multidisciplinary Residence Program in health to propose actions of teaching-service integration in the formation of residents formation; identify difficulties and facilities in the teaching-service integration actions in the formation of residents of the Multidisciplinary Residence Program in Health. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research survey of thirteen teachers acting in the Integrated Multidisciplinary Residence Program in Public Health in a city of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The data were collected in the period from March to July 2015 through systematic observation and semi-structured interview. After this, the data were transcribed and analyzed by operational analysis proposed by Minayo, wich allows the generation of three categories: Teaching- Service Integration; dialectical movement in the learning process; between the plots of the development of teaching-service integration; and the teaching-service integration in residents formation: difficulties and facilities. The ethical aspects of research with humans beings was respected according to Resolution 466/12 of the National Health Council. The results showed that the teachers conceive the teaching-service integration as a strategy for the meaningful learning and also to practice for building knowledge. Moreover, to the development of this integration is necessary to understand the role and the importance of each instance involved and the role of the residents, teachers and tutors, as well actualize the relationship between graduate students and residents. It concludes that teaching-service integration provides conditions and learning for the resident and everyone involved ins this relationship. However, it requires continuous reflection and clear and co-responsible pacts that encourage the educational process according to the public health policies. / Os programas de Residências Multiprofissionais em Saúde buscam transformar as práticas dos serviços públicos de saúde brasileiro por meio da formação em serviço de profissionais que atendam os princípios do Sistema Único de Saúde. Para isso, faz-se necessário o envolvimento dos profissionais em formação com trabalhadores do serviço e docentes das instituições de ensino, com vistas a integrar o saber científico, teórico e prático. Em virtude disso, esta pesquisa objetivou analisar a concepção dos docentes de um Programa de Residência Multiprofissional em Saúde acerca da integração ensino-serviço na formação dos residentes; conhecer o desenvolvimento das ações de integração ensino-serviço na formação dos residentes e as estratégias utilizadas pelos docentes de um Programa de RMS para o desencadeamento destas ações; identificar as dificuldades e facilidades nas ações de integração ensino-serviço na formação dos residentes da RMS. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa do tipo exploratória e descritiva realizada com treze docentes atuantes em um Programa de Residência Multiprofissional Integrada em Sistema Público de Saúde de um município do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Os dados foram coletados, no período de março a julho de 2015, por meio de observação sistemática e entrevista semiestruturada. Posteriormente, os mesmos foram transcritos e analisados mediante a Análise operativa proposta por Minayo, que possibilitou evidenciar três categorias: integração ensino-serviço: movimento dialético no processo de aprendizagem; entre as tramas do desenvolvimento da integração ensino-serviço; e, integração ensino-serviço na formação dos residentes: dificuldades e facilidades. Os aspectos éticos das pesquisas com seres humanos foram respeitados conforme a Resolução 466/12 do Conselho Nacional de Saúde. Os resultados evidenciaram que os docentes concebem a integração ensino-serviço como uma estratégia para a aprendizagem significativa e, também para a práxis e a construção do conhecimento. Além disso, para o desenvolvimento dessa integração é necessário compreender o papel e a importância de cada instância envolvida e, também, dos residentes, docentes e preceptores, bem como, efetivar a relação entre os graduandos e os residentes. Conclui-se que a integração ensino-serviço proporciona condições de ensino e aprendizagem ao residente e a todos os envolvidos nessa relação, no entanto requer uma reflexão contínua do papel de cada um, a fim de estimular a corresponsabilidade no processo pedagógico de acordo com as políticas públicas de saúde.

Abuse of prescription and over-the-counter substances other than alcohol is becoming a prevalent issue; therefore, it is important to identify factors that may help predict risk for this abuse. Some demographic and situational factors have been identified for traditional 4-year college students. However, less is known about community college students, who enter college less academically prepared and may be still enmeshed with family and peer groups from high school. In this correlational study, predictors of substance abuse other than alcohol were explored among a convenience sample of 118 students from an American community college. The research question was developed based on previous research such as Bandura's social learning theory and Arnett's theory of emerging adults. The question explored how well gender (male, female, other) and 2 dimensions from the Ryff scale of psychological well-being (sense of autonomy and positive relationships with others) predict substance use among the community college sample. Use of substances other than alcohol was measured using the Drug Abuse Screening Test-10. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the research hypotheses. Although gender was not related to substance use, higher autonomy and more positive relationships scores were statistically significant predictors of higher use of substances other than alcohol among this sample. These findings were consistent with characteristics of emerging adulthood that may present risk factors for this group of college students. Findings support positive social change as they may be considered by stakeholders when considering possible prevention or intervention activities to address substance use issues on community college campuses.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T12:51:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lucianogarcialourencao_tese.pdf: 857347 bytes, checksum: 8f6be023914e422024f008522345c274 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-05 / In Brazil, a lot of health professionals search insertion in graduate degree programs such as professional residency/improvement. To finish such training process, they can pass through great difficulties with high levels of health problems that interfere in their life quality. Objective: To evaluate the quality of life of resident physicians and non-medical resident professionals of a school hospital. Casuistic and Method: The population of this study comprised 269 resident physicians, 89 non-medical resident professionals (55 aprimorandos and 34 aperfeiçoandos). To collect data WHOQOL-100 was used an instrument of World Health Organization to evaluate the life quality. Data was collected in the period from November 2008 to January 2009. The intern consistence of the WHOQOL-100 was evaluated by the Cronbach Coefficient Alpha, in which the values equal or superior to 0.70 are considered satisfactory. Results: There were 358 enrolled in vocational programs, of which 196 participated in the study, and 120 (44.61%) resident physicians, and 76 non-medical resident physicians (52 (96.30%) aprimorandos and 24 (70.59%) aperfeiçoandos) participated in the study. There was a low intern consistence in the domain level of independence (α = 0.54 / 0.48 and 0.54 for residence, non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos), respectively and in the social relationship domain for the nonmedical resident professionals (α = 0.68). Considering respectively residents and nonmedical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos), presented higher average scores were: independence level (77.18 / 75.03 / 82.29); spiritual/religion aspects (74.01 / 77.76 / 83.59) and social relationship (68.80 / 69.79 / 71.18) domains; the lower scores were for the psychological (63.38 / 61.37 / 66.87), environmental (62.46 / 59.15 / 58.93) and physical (57.36 / 55.73 / 61.72) domains. The characteristics with higher scores were: dependence on medication or treatments (88.54 / 82.57 / 93.94), personal relationship (70.31 /74.27 / 76.30) and sleep and rest (63.59 / 64.40 / 68.23) for all professionals; self (67.65 / 65.38) for residents and non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos), body image and appearance (73.17) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos); transportation (80.26) for residents, home environment for non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos) and physical environment (69.19) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos). The professionals presented great scores in the spirituality, religion and personal beliefs characteristic. The characteristics with lower scores were: daily life activities (67.13 / 67.30 / 76.30) and negative feelings (57.60 / 51.80 / 59.11) for all the professionals; sexual activity (66.77 / 63.10) and energy and fatigue (50.20 / 51.32) for residents and non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos); social support (67.70) and pain and discomfort (54.17) for non-medical resident professionals (aperfeiçoandos); participation in recreation/leisure opportunities (49.21) for residents and financial resources (45.55 / 50.52) for non-medical resident professionals (aprimorandos and aperfeiçoandos respectively). Conclusions: The evaluation of life quality showed that the studied professionals are satisfied with their life quality; life and health; presented an adequate level of independence and good spiritual/religious structure. There is a commitment of sexual life and daily life activities, furthermore on coping with difficulties of stressful situations. / No Brasil, muitos profissionais de saúde buscam inserção em programas e pós-graduação como residência/aprimoramento profissional. Para concluírem tal processo de formação, passam por grandes dificuldades com elevados índices de problemas de saúde que interferem na sua qualidade de vida. Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade de vida dos médicos residentes, aprimorandos e aperfeiçoandos de um hospital escola. Casuística e Método: A população deste estudo foi composta por 269 médicos residentes, 55 aprimorandos e 34 aperfeiçoandos. Para a coleta dos dados utilizou-se o WHOQOL-100, instrumento da Organização Mundial de Saúde para avaliar qualidade de vida. Os dados foram coletados no período de novembro de 2008 a janeiro de 2009. A consistência interna do WHOQOL-100 foi avaliada pelo Coeficiente Alfa de Cronbach, cujos valores iguais ou maiores a 0,70 são considerados satisfatórios. Resultados: Havia 358 profissionais matriculados nos programas, dos quais 196 participaram do estudo, sendo 120 (44,61%) médicos residentes, 52 (96,30%) aprimorandos e 24 (70,59%) aperfeiçoandos. Houve baixa consistência interna no domínio nível de independência (α = 0,54 / 0,48 e 0,54 para residência, aprimoramento e aperfeiçoamento, respectivamente) e no domínio relações sociais para os aprimorandos (α = 0,68). Considerando respectivamente residentes, aprimorandos e aperfeiçoandos, os domínios que apresentaram maiores escores médios foram: nível de independência (77,18 / 75,03 / 82,29); aspectos espirituais/religiosos (74,01 / 77,76 / 83,59) e relações sociais (68,80 / 69,79 / 71,18); os menores escores foram para os domínios psicológico (63,38 / 61,37 / 66,87), ambiente (62,46 / 59,15 / 58,93) e físico (57,36 / 55,73 / 61,72). As facetas com maiores escores foram: dependência de medicação ou de tratamentos (88,54 / 82,57 / 93,94), relações pessoais (70,31 / 74,27 / 76,30) e sono e repouso (63,59 / 64,40 / 68,23) para todos os profissionais; autoestima (67,65 / 65,38) para residentes e aprimorandos; imagem corporal e aparência (73,17) para aperfeiçoandos; transporte (80,26) para residentes; ambiente no lar para aprimorandos e ambiente físico: poluição, ruído, trânsito, clima (69,19) para aperfeiçoandos. Os profissionais apresentaram ótimos escores na faceta de espiritualidade, religião e crenças pessoais. As facetas com menores escores foram: atividade da vida cotidiana (67,13 / 67,30 / 76,30) e sentimentos negativos (57,60 / 51,80 / 59,11) para todos os profissionais; atividade sexual (66,77 / 63,10) e energia e fadiga (50,20 / 51,32) para residentes e aprimorandos; suporte social (67,70) e dor e desconforto (54,17) para aperfeiçoandos; participação em/e oportunidades de recreação/lazer (49,21) para residentes e recursos financeiros (45,55 / 50,52) para aprimorandos e aperfeiçoandos. Conclusões: A avaliação da qualidade de vida mostrou que os profissionais estudados apresentam-se satisfeitos com a qualidade de vida, a vida e a saúde; apresentam bom nível de independência e boa estrutura espiritual/religiosa. Há um comprometimento da vida sexual e das atividades da vida cotidiana, além de dificuldades de enfrentamento das situações estressantes.