| Prevalence of cocaine and marijuana use in the last trimester of adolescent pregnancy: socio-demographic, psychosocial and behavioral characteristics. | |
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PMID: 16814936 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of cocaine and marijuana use during the third trimester of pregnancy in a population of 1000 teenage women of a public hospital in São Paulo, Brazil using hair analysis in order to avoid underestimation of data that could happen by the use of self-report questionnaires and describe socio-demographic, psychosocial and behavioral characteristics of the drug users. RESULTS: Hair analysis has detected use of cocaine and/or marijuana in the third trimester of pregnancy in 6% of the patients: 4.0% used marijuana, 1.7% used cocaine and 3% used both drugs. They were about 17 years old, from low-income, poorly educated, unemployed, financially dependent and they had not planned the pregnancy. 10% of miscarriages have occurred in this population. CONCLUSION: This study shows the psychosocial impairment associated to teenage pregnancy and use of cocaine and marijuana during gestation by this low-income population with reliable data of prevalence obtained through hair analysis. |
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Sandro Sendin Mitsuhiro; Elisa Chalem; Marina Carvalho de Moraes Barros; Ruth Guinsburg; Ronaldo Laranjeira |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2006-07-11 |
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Title: Addictive behaviors Volume: 32 ISSN: 0306-4603 ISO Abbreviation: Addict Behav Publication Date: 2007 Feb |
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Created Date: 2006-12-22 Completed Date: 2007-11-06 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7603486 Medline TA: Addict Behav Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 392-7 Citation Subset: IM |
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Alcohol and Drug Research Unit (Uniad), Psychiatry Department, Federal University of São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 394, 04023 061, Brazil. mitsuhiro@uol.com.br |
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Adolescent Brazil / epidemiology Cocaine-Related Disorders / epidemiology*, psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Developing Countries* Female Hair / chemistry Humans Marijuana Smoking / epidemiology*, psychology Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications / epidemiology*, psychology Pregnancy Outcome Pregnancy Trimester, Third Pregnancy in Adolescence / psychology*, statistics & numerical data Pregnancy, Unplanned Prevalence Psychosocial Deprivation Sexual Behavior Substance Abuse Detection / methods |
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