Experience of Young School Aged Children with Legal Drugs
Authors:
D. Hrubá 1; I. Žaloudíková 2
Authors‘ workplace:
Ústav preventivního lékařství, Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Brno
vedoucí prof. MUDr. Z. Derflerová Brázdová, DrSc.
1; Katedra psychologie, Pedagogická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, Brno
vedoucí doc. PhDr. E. Řehůlka, CSc.
2
Published in:
Čes-slov Pediat 2009; 64 (10): 461-468.
Category:
Original Papers
Overview
Background:
Childhood is a critical period due to enhanced susceptibility to many risk factors, including legal drugs, which cause both acute and late disorders manifested in adulthood. Program „No Smoking is a Norm“ allows the prospective study of the development of attitudes, behavior and attributed conditions within the cohort of children from their 6 years of age.
Methods:
In the 2nd course, pupils voted the answer YES or NO on question, if they ever tasted alcoholic beverage and tried to smoke. In the 3rd course, the possibilities to indicate the type of beverage and the situation of drinking and smoking (with friends, family members, alone) were added to the same question. In the 4th course, the drinking of alcohol within the last month and the single or repeated experimentation with smoking was described. The description of trends and analysis of differences between abstained children and those who experimented with alcohol is presented: the t-tests in the statistic program EPI INFO were used.
Results:
In the 2nd course, about 60% of children tasted some alcohol; in the 3rd course even of about another 10% more: the growing up trend is highly significant. In the 4th course, almost 40% of children drank alcohol within the last month. The frequency of alcohol users was significantly higher among boys in all measurements. The beer was mostly preferred; among liqueurs the egg cognac, and liquors such as rum, Fernet, plum brandy, cognac, Whisky were described as consumed sorts. Almost half of 3rd course’s pupils tasted sometime 2 or more different sorts of alcohol; in the 4th course, more than 10% of children have drunk repeatedly more than one sort of alcohol within the last month. In the majority of cases – more than 90% events – the alcohol was offered by the adult family members (parents, grandparents, other relatives). Another 5% of children took alcoholic beverages from the free available domestic sources. The friend gave the alcohol only rarely. Contrary, only less than 54% parents of 4th course’s children admitted that their child could drink alcohol and only 4% of them described that they watch over the children’s drinking. About 28% of ten-years-old children had some experiences with smoking.
Conclusion:
The family environment of the majority Czech children supports their positive attitudes to the legal drugs – alcohol and tobacco – and facilitates their availability even for children of younger school age. To search the way how to change it is very difficult, but absolutely necessary.
Key words:
schoolchildren, alcohol, smoking
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