在COVID-19大流行期间自我报告的大麻使用的变化:范围审查
Kamna Mehra1,2, Jennifer Rup1,2, Jessica L Wiese1,2
1Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada.
BMC public health
|November 2, 2023
概括
COVID-19大流行影响了大麻的使用,近一半的研究报告增加或开始使用. 诸如压力,孤立和先前存在的心理健康状况等因素与这些变化有关.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 药物使用研究研究 药物使用研究
背景情况:
- COVID-19 流行病对全球心理健康和物质使用 (MHSU) 产生了重大影响.
- 了解大麻使用在疫情期间的变化对于公共卫生至关重要.
- 关于大麻消费的流行病相关转变的文献需要描述.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19流行病期间审查和描述有关大麻使用变化的现有文献.
- 在大流行期间识别与大麻使用模式改变相关的因素.
主要方法:
- 进行了全面的范围审查,从2020年1月到2022年5月搜索同行评审数据库和灰色文献.
- 阿克西和奥马利框架指导了审查过程.
- 从129份文件中提取数据,并使用两位独立审稿人使用内容分析技术进行分析.
主要成果:
- 近一半 (48%) 的审查研究表明,大麻使用的增加或开始.
- 36%的研究报告大麻使用没有变化,而16%观察到大麻使用减少或停止.
- 与大麻使用增加相关的因素包括年龄较小,症状负担较高,焦虑,抑郁,流行病压力,无聊,孤立,大麻依赖以及大麻合法化政策.
结论:
- 流行病等公共卫生紧急情况可以显著改变大麻使用行为.
- 迫切需要加强应对机制和支持系统,以帮助人口适应突然的生活变化.
- 为了未来的准备,教育医疗保健系统有关大麻使用的流行病相关变化的影响至关重要.
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