Violence at night time recreational environment among young portuguese people: the relation with alcohol consumption and drug use
La violencia entre los jóvenes portugueses en ambientes recreativos nocturnos: relación con el consumo de alcohol y drogas
Violência em ambientes recreativos noturnos de jovens portugueses: relação com consumo de álcool e drogas
Maria de Lurdes Lopes de Freitas Lomba; João Luís Alves Apóstolo; Daniela Filipa Batista Cardoso
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The night time recreational environments have currently gained an important role in the juvenile life, determining life styles, standardizing the recreational consumption of alcohol and drugs, as well as the adoption of associated risk behaviours. OBJECTIVES: To characterize the profile of Portuguese young people attending nightlife recreational environments and determine the prevalence of violent behaviors based on sociodemographic variables, alcohol consumption and drug use, and engagement in recreational nightlife activities. METHODOLOGY: Interview applied to 1346 young people who used to go to nighttime recreational environments, both sexes, into 10 Portuguese cities, between 2007 and 2010, using the respondent-driven sampling. RESULTS: It was notified the existence of a positive relation among violent behaviours, alcohol consumption and drug use, and young people's engagement in recreational nightlife. CONCLUSIONS: It is suggested that preventive actions should be implemented in recreational environments, to meet the characteristics of young people presented in this study as predictors of violent behaviors.
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ANTECEDENTES: Los entornos recreativos nocturnos han conquistado, en la actualidad, una importancia creciente en la vida juvenil, determinando los estilos de vida, normalizando el consumo recreativo de alcohol/drogas y la practica de otros comportamientos de riesgo. OBJETIVO: Delinear el perfil de los jóvenes portugueses que frequentan ambientes recreativos nocturnos y determinar la prevalencia de conductas violentas en relación con variables sociodemográficas, consumo de alcohol y drogas y envolvimiento en las actividades recreacionales nocturnas. METODOLOGÍA: Entrevista con 1346 jóvenes (edad media = 22,49 años) frecuentadores de ambientes recreativos nocturnos, de ambos sexos, en 10 ciudades portuguesas, mediante el uso de una variación de la Respondent-Driven Sampling entre 2007 y 2010.Resultados: Se constató una relación positiva entre comportamiento violento, consumo de alcohol y drogas y la participación de los jóvenes en la vida recreativa nocturna. CONCLUSIÓN: Se sugiere que la implementación de medidas preventivas en este contexto atienda a las características de los jóvenes presentados en este estudio, como predictoras de la conducta violenta.
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Submitted date:
05/14/2012
Reviewed date:
07/02/2012
Accepted date:
08/06/2012
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