Behavior of alcoholism in adolescents

Abstract

Alcohol is the most consumed drug in the world. Many young people have their first contact with it between the ages of 12 and 17. An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted; the population consisted of 972 students from the Ignacio Agramonte Urban Pre-university Institute and the sample of 317 students selected through stratified probability sampling. with the Objective: to describe the behavior of alcoholism in the adolescents of the institute in the period from September 2017 to January 2018. Results: the average age was 16.13 with a standard deviation of 0.88. It was shown that 65.9 % of students consumed alcoholic beverages; the average starting age was 13.45 years with a standard deviation of 3.03; 85.6 % consumed with low frequency; 61.2 % had reached drunkenness at least once; 88.3 % knew about the harmful effects of alcohol and 75.1 % did not smoke. Conclusions: in the study, the female sex predominated, as well as the ages between 16 and 17 years old, the group that consumes alcoholic beverages, with an early onset age, and those who know about the harmful effect that alcohol produces in the body. Of the group that consumes alcoholic beverages those that consumed with a low frequency and in group predominated, as well as those that have reached the state of drunkenness, at least once; the consumption of alcoholic beverages is associated with smoking.