Charfi N, Smaoui N, Turki M, Maâlej Bouali M, Omri S, Ben Thabet J, Zouari N, Zouari L, Maâlej M
Service de psychiatrie C, faculté de médecine de Sfax, CHU Hédi Chaker, route El Aïn km 1, 3029 Sfax, Tunisie.
Service de psychiatrie C, faculté de médecine de Sfax, CHU Hédi Chaker, route El Aïn km 1, 3029 Sfax, Tunisie.
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2019 Feb;67(1):13-20. doi: 10.1016/j.respe.2018.10.007. Epub 2018 Dec 6.
Although the increase of media interest for psychoactive substances use, especially alcohol, among young people, since the revolution, Tunisia has few epidemiological studies on this subject, which does not allow having a clear idea of the importance of the problem and its different determinants.
To assess the prevalence of alcohol consumption among adolescents in the region of Sfax (Tunisia) and to determine its relations to the two personality dimensions: sensation seeking and impulsivity.
This was a cross-sectional study involving 317 middle and high school students in Sfax (Tunisia). We used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) to assess risky alcohol-consumption, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) to assess the degree of impulsivity and the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V) to assess the level of sensation seeking.
The average age of students was 15.79±1.5 years with a sex-ratio of 1.07. The prevalence of experimenters (who had drunk alcohol at least once in their lifetime) was 19.6% while that of current consumers (who had drunk alcohol more than one time during the past 12 months before the survey) was 8.8%. Among those who reported alcohol use during the last year, 42.8% were alcohol-dependent, according to the AUDIT. The analysis of personality dimensions showed a significant association between current alcohol consumption and sensation seeking (P<0.001) in particular on the dimensions of disinhibition (DIS), experience seeking (ES) and boredom susceptibility (BS) (P respectively: <0.001; 0.002 and 0.001). Total impulsivity and motor and attention impulsivity were associated with current alcohol consumption (respective P: 0.001, 0.005 and 0.015).
Our study of schooled Tunisian adolescents shows that sensation seeking and impulsivity are associated with the development of alcohol use. Such a behavior is worrisome because it appears to be quite frequent and often problematic.
自革命以来，尽管媒体对年轻人使用精神活性物质尤其是酒精的关注度有所增加，但突尼斯在这一主题上的流行病学研究较少，这使得人们无法清楚了解该问题的严重性及其不同的决定因素。
评估斯法克斯地区（突尼斯）青少年饮酒的患病率，并确定其与两种人格维度：感觉寻求和冲动性之间的关系。
这是一项横断面研究，涉及斯法克斯（突尼斯）的317名中学生和高中生。我们使用酒精使用障碍识别测试（AUDIT）来评估危险饮酒情况，使用巴拉特冲动性量表（BIS - 11）来评估冲动程度，使用感觉寻求量表（SSS - V）来评估感觉寻求水平。
学生的平均年龄为15.79±1.5岁，性别比为1.07。尝试饮酒者（一生中至少饮酒一次）的患病率为19.6%，而当前饮酒者（在调查前过去12个月内饮酒超过一次）的患病率为8.8%。根据AUDIT，在那些报告去年饮酒的人中，42.8%存在酒精依赖。人格维度分析显示，当前饮酒与感觉寻求之间存在显著关联（P<0.001），特别是在去抑制（DIS）、体验寻求（ES）和无聊易感性（BS）维度上（P分别为：<0.001；0.002和0.001）。总体冲动性以及运动和注意力冲动性与当前饮酒有关（P分别为：0.001、0.005和0.015）。
我们对突尼斯在校青少年的研究表明，感觉寻求和冲动性与饮酒行为的发展有关。这种行为令人担忧，因为它似乎相当普遍且往往存在问题。
