Ali Enub, Sachdeva Ankur, Gupta Swatika, Kumar Manoj, Singh Jai M, Kardam Lalit
Department of Psychiatry, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, NIT Faridabad, Haryana, India.
Medical Officer, Department of Surgery, Genesis Fertility and Surgical Centre, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Feb;11(2):685-690. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1752_21. Epub 2022 Feb 16.
To gain information on the marijuana experiences and expectancies of youth in an urban Indian area, which may be used for forming the framework for the development of effective primary prevention strategies in the future.
This was a cross-sectional study conducted in various colleges of Mumbai; 260 students from three colleges who were above 18 years were selected by systematic random sampling. The participant had to fill a sociodemographic questionnaire and marijuana effect expectancy questionnaire (MEEQ-B) and it was analyzed by using the SPSS software.
A significant association was found between negative marijuana expectancies and type of family, with cannabis users and non-users, who want to try cannabis and those who are aware of the legal issues and harmful effects of cannabis.
Preventive drug education should begin in early adolescence and should deter or delay drug use through changes in knowledge, attitude, behavior, and expectation. Adolescent drug education must meet the needs of those naive to drugs as well as those experiencing initial drug exposure. This is the first study which highlights the youth experiences and expectancies about marijuana in India.
获取印度城市地区青少年吸食大麻的经历及预期信息，这些信息可用于构建未来有效初级预防策略的发展框架。
这是一项在孟买各学院开展的横断面研究；通过系统随机抽样从三所学院选取了260名18岁以上的学生。参与者需填写一份社会人口统计学问卷和大麻效应预期问卷（MEEQ - B），并使用SPSS软件进行分析。
发现负面大麻预期与家庭类型、大麻使用者与非使用者、想要尝试大麻者以及知晓大麻法律问题和有害影响者之间存在显著关联。
预防性药物教育应在青春期早期开始，应通过知识、态度、行为和预期的改变来阻止或延缓药物使用。青少年药物教育必须满足初次接触毒品者以及刚开始接触毒品者的需求。这是第一项突出印度青少年对大麻的经历和预期的研究。
