Skip to main content

Table 2 Prevalence of nonmedical use of TSSp in Female adolescents, according to sociodemographic variables, use of licit and illicit psychoactive drugs and variables related with perceived health risk, perceived availability and School information. ESTUDES Survey

From: Gender differences in the nonmedical use of psychoactive medications in the school population- national trends and related factors

 

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

Combined years

aLinear Trend

p-valuea

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

  

Age

14–15

138(2.56)

153(2.45)

200(2.94)

233(3.15)

161(3.4)

272(3.13)

1157(2.95)

0.013

16–18

242(3.31)

241(3.16)

311(3.68)

360(4.01)

416(4.68)

464(4.51)

2032(3.95)

0.000

Nationality

Immigrants

NA

360(2.82)

445(3.28)

511(3.52)

487(4.04)

638(3.81)

2441(3.51)

0.000

Spanish

380(3.00)

34(3.10)

65(3.96)

81(4.45)

89(5.68)

98(4.4)

368(4.39)

0.084

Occupational status of parents

Unemployed both

2(1.36)

16(3.76)

24(5.15)

39(5.38)

50(6.13)

72(6.64)

203(5.5)

0.007

Employed one

67(3.99)

61(3.29)

104(3.57)

150(4.40)

156(4.29)

178(4.09)

715(4.01)

0.292

Employed both

310(2.87)

317(2.74)

383(3.23)

404(3.30)

371(4.04)

486(3.59)

2271(3.28)

0.000

Educational level of parents

No formal education

16(2.97)

17(2.55)

22(3.26)

16(2.81)

22(4.76)

18(3.19)

111(3.19)

0.374

Primary school

129(2.62)

158(2.97)

220(3.69)

214(3.67)

198(3.99)

194(4.03)

1113(3.5)

0.000

Secondary school

49(2.9)

64(2.88)

64(2.82)

124(3.9)

119(4.31)

180(3.81)

600(3.56)

0.015

Higher education

127(3.76)

97(2.91)

127(3.46)

171(3.88)

172(4.48)

246(3.9)

941(3.77)

0.097

Alcohol use in the past 30 days

No

81(1.79)

132(2.27)

156(2.52)

176(2.54)

78(2.21)

139(2.01)

763(2.25)

0.888

Yes

299(3.66)

262(3.26)

354(3.91)

417(4.4)

498(4.94)

597(4.95)

2427(4.27)

0.000

Any cigarette smoking in the past 30 days

No

15(2.71)

214(2.23)

262(2.59)

346(2.98)

310(3.22)

413(2.84)

1560(2.78)

0.014

Yes

188(4.57)

180(4.24)

248(4.83)

247(5.19)

266(6.68)

323(7.25)

1452(5.44)

0.000

Any marijuana use in the past 30 days

No

231(2.34)

291(2.56)

362(2.87)

417(3.00)

417(3.52)

530(3.16)

2246(2.94)

0.000

Yes

149(5.3)

103(4.12)

149(5.66)

176(7.08)

160(8.97)

206(9.44)

943(6.55)

0.000

Any illicit psychoactive drug use other than marijuana in the last 12 months

No

318(2.61)

360(2.67)

456(3.06)

524(3.26)

512(3.82)

683(3.64)

2855(3.21)

0.000

Yes

61(12.52)

34(8.86)

54(16.13)

68(23.76)

64(29.05)

53(24.62)

334(17.35)

0.000

Perceived health risk for consumption of TSSp

No/few problems

101(8.37)

106(7.70)

140(9.4)

148(9.05)

146(14.33)

183(10.99)

825(9.82)

0.001

Quite a few/many problems

249(2.47)

236(2.20)

285(2.51)

338(3.09)

339(3.60)

417(3.1)

1864(2.82)

0.000

Perceived availability of TSSp

Impossible/very difficult to obtain

23(0.71)

64(1.59)

61(1.34)

65(1.96)

75(2.17)

101(1.94)

389(1.63)

0.000

Easy/very easy to obtain

320(4.76)

278(4.8)

361(6.24)

432(6.79)

388(9.21)

448(8.30)

2226(6.50)

0.000

Information on drugs received at school

No

98(3.42)

154(3.14)

121(3.29)

154(4.54)

159(4.87)

176(4.22)

861(3.87)

0.003

Yes

282(2.87)

240(2.68)

369(3.3)

423(3.35)

402(3.99)

533(3.74)

2248(3.36)

0.000

  1. NA not available
  2. aLinear time trend from 2004 to 2014 estimating prevalence of past 30 days nonmedical use of tranquilizer. Sedatives and sleeping pills by demographic subgroup