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Substance use among non-fatally injured patients attended at emergency departments in Spain
- Source :
- DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, r-IIB SANT PAU. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Sant Pau, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2009.
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Abstract
- Aims: To describe the prevalence of recent use of alcohol, medication, and illegal drugs among patients who attended emergency departments (EDs) as a result of suffering an injury due to any external mechanism and to identify factors associated with alcohol and drug use. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in eight university hospitals in Spain. Participants were adult patients admitted to a trauma ED. Oral fluid was used to test for psychoactive substances analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Socio-demographic data and information on circumstances of the injury were collected through interviews. Results: The analysis included 1579 patients admitted to the EDs (56.4% men). Among Young people (= 40 years, 7.4% of men and 1.6% of women were positive for any illegal substance, and 16.3% and 11.0% respectively for alcohol. Prevalence of substance detected varied across mechanism of injury, gender and age group. Night-time injury was associated with substance use. Conclusions: A high proportion of injured patients who were treated in an EDs tested positive for psychoactive drugs. Routine testing at trauma departments would maximize the identification of patients who may benefit from referral to specialized addiction treatment centers, or brief interventions. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Referral
Epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders
Psychological intervention
Poison control
Injury
Assessment
Emergency departments
Toxicology
Trauma
Occupational safety and health
Patient Admission
Sex Factors
Injury prevention
Prevalence
medicine
Humans
Pharmacology (medical)
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Pharmacology
business.industry
Age Factors
Emergency department
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Substance Abuse Detection
Substance abuse
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Spain
Emergency medicine
Wounds and Injuries
Female
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03768716
- Volume :
- 105
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....999b3ee83fc1709ce266861b0ed77269