Kontakt 2024, 26(2):168-173 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2024.029

Prevalence of substance use among adolescents in residential educational facilities in the Czech RepublicSocial Sciences in Health - Original article

Pavla Doležalová1, *, Karel Červenka2, Věra Vojtová2
1 The National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic; St. Elisabeth University of Health Care and Social Work, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2 Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Department of Special and Inclusive Education, Brno, Czech Republic

This study presents part of the research from a 2019 project in Czechia's residential educational facilities for children with emotional and behavioral disorders. The high prevalence of drug use among these adolescents has a cumulative set of harms to health. The main research objective was to examine the prevalence of substance use among adolescent girls and boys living in residential educational facilities. The auxiliary research objective was to compare its results with the ESPAD (2015 and 2019) survey of the general Czech adolescent mainstream population. The sample consisted of 204 respondents aged 15-19 years. The primary data collection instrument was the ESPAD questionnaire. The analysis of the collected data was carried out using SPSS software. The findings arrived from statistical procedures such as descriptive data analysis and various statistical methods. Data from ESPAD research (2015, 2019) was selected for analytical comparisons. The findings indicate a high prevalence of drug use among the study group of adolescents in residential education facilities and a high majority of selected substance use in comparison with the results found in the ESPAD (2015, 2019) study in the general school population of Czechia. The findings support a systemic focus on the prevention of health risks, harm reduction, as well as the treatment of substance use disorder among adolescents. Data on the incidence and prevalence of substance use should be regularly collected and evaluated in these facilities

Keywords: Adolescents; Emotional and behavioral disorders; ESPAD study; Facilities; Prevalence; Residential; Substance use
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This paper was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under grant number PRCH-IP-0095/2019, and by the project “Sustainability for the National Institute of Mental Health” under grant number LO1611, with financial support from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the NPU I program and Masaryk University, in Brno, Department Special and Inclusive Education.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Received: July 23, 2023; Revised: February 10, 2024; Accepted: May 3, 2024; Prepublished online: May 17, 2024; Published: May 31, 2024  Show citation

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