多种药物使用模式在墨西哥美国女性中
Alice Cepeda1, Jarron Saint Onge2, Qianwei Zhao3
1Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizonia State University.
Journal of drug issues
|February 23, 2026
概括
低社会经济地位与墨西哥裔美国女性大麻和多种药物使用的增加有关. 解决社会不平等问题对于开发有效的物质使用干预措施至关重要.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 药物使用研究研究 药物使用研究
背景情况:
- 在美国出生的拉丁裔女性中同时发生的药物使用仍然没有得到充分的研究.
- 这项研究的重点是多种药物使用模式和低收入墨西哥裔美国妇女的社会不平等.
研究的目的:
- 检查多种药物使用模式与社会不平等之间的关系.
- 在这个人口群体中识别药物使用的不同模式.
主要方法:
- 在Proyecto SALTO纵向队列研究中利用了199名墨西哥裔美国成年女性的数据.
- 隐性类分析 (LCA) 确定了大麻,安非他林,可卡因和海洛因使用的模式.
- 经年龄调整的多项逻辑回归分析了共变量和潜在类之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 三个不同的类别出现了:非/低使用 (60.30%),大麻使用 (27.64%) 和多药使用 (12.06%).
- 在大麻使用和多种药物使用类别中,与非/低使用组相比,大麻使用和多种药物使用类别中的个人显示出较低的社会经济地位指标.
结论:
- 虽然样本中的物质使用量相对于一般人群来说很高,但大多数 (60.30%) 是非/低使用.
- 低社会经济地位和破碎的家庭关系显著增加了对大麻和多种药物使用的易感性.
- 有针对性的干预措施必须承认并解决潜在的社会经济条件,以有效地减少物质使用.
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