Adolescents' Psychoactive Substance Use During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Cross Sectional Study in Italy.

IF 1.7 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Child & Youth Care Forum Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1007/s10566-022-09701-0

Silvia Biagioni, Federica Baldini, Marina Baroni, Sonia Cerrai, Francesca Melis, Roberta Potente, Marco Scalese, Sabrina Molinaro

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Abstract

Background: Italy was one of the first European countries to be affected by Covid-19. Due to the severity of the pandemic, the Italian government imposed a nationwide lockdown which had a great impact on the population, especially adolescents. Distance-learning, moving restrictions and pandemic-related concerns, resulted in a particularly stressful situation.

Objective: This cross-sectional study aims to analyse substance consumption and its associated factors during the Covid-19 lockdown imposed by the Italian government.

Methods: ESPAD is a questionnaire that is administered yearly in Italian high schools. In 2020, it was administered online during dedicated hours of distance learning, collecting data from 6027 Italian students (52.4% were male) aged 15-19. Data collected from the 2020 questionnaire was matched with that collected in 2019, in order to make them comparable.

Results: The prevalence of consumption of each substance decreased during the restriction period, and the most used substance during the lockdown period was alcohol (43.1%). There were some changes in factors associated with psychoactive substance use, especially painkillers and non-prescription drugs. For instance, unlike what was observed in the 2019 model, in 2020 spending money without parental control was associated with painkillers and non-prescription drug use while risk perception was not.

Conclusions: The restrictions and the increased difficulties in obtaining psychoactive substances did not prevent their consumption, and students with particular risk factors continued to use them, possibly changing the substance type of substance. This information is useful in order to better understand adolescents' substance use during the ongoing pandemic.

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第一次COVID-19封锁期间青少年精神活性物质使用:意大利的一项横断面研究

背景:意大利是首批受Covid-19影响的欧洲国家之一。由于疫情的严重性，意大利政府在全国范围内实施了封锁，这对人口，特别是青少年产生了很大的影响。远程学习、行动限制和与大流行病有关的关切造成了特别紧张的局面。目的:本横断面研究旨在分析意大利政府实施的Covid-19封锁期间的物质消耗及其相关因素。方法:ESPAD是一份每年在意大利高中进行的问卷调查。2020年，在专门的远程学习时间进行在线管理，收集了6027名15-19岁的意大利学生(52.4%为男性)的数据。从2020年的问卷中收集的数据与2019年收集的数据进行了匹配，以使它们具有可比性。结果:禁闭期各物质的消费量呈下降趋势，禁闭期使用最多的物质为酒精(43.1%)。与精神活性物质使用有关的因素发生了一些变化，特别是止痛药和非处方药。例如，与2019年模型所观察到的不同，2020年在没有父母控制的情况下花钱与止痛药和非处方药的使用有关，而风险感知则无关。结论:对精神活性物质的限制和获取难度的增加并没有阻止其消费，具有特定危险因素的学生继续使用精神活性物质，可能改变了物质类型。这些信息有助于更好地了解当前大流行期间青少年的药物使用情况。

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