Factores protectores en adolescentes con riesgo de consumo de sustancias ilícitas en el barrio Las Américas

Abstract

Abstract: A quasi-experimental study was carried out with 40 participants. We applied the DUSI test and a personalized interview, then an intervention plan was applied in 7 months, using activities that helped to improve the family, educational and behavioral environment of the adolescent. With these tools, the initial data that served as inputs to organize and develop an intervention plan were obtained and we were able to know the risk values prior to the intervention and after it. At the beginning of the project, there was a prevalence of adolescents at high risk of illicit substance use that represented 40% of the population studied, most of them in middle / late adolescence, male, with active students, who had witnessed or been victims of domestic violence and who had a family history who had previously used drugs. At the end, we were able to reduce the percentage of high risk of consumption from 40% to 32.5%, and an increase in adolescents with low risk from 20% to 40%, qualifying our intervention as effective.