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Health-related quality of life and pain in children and adolescents: A school survey
2016
Background Pain problems are common in children and adolescents. Measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) can be used to assess children’s subjective perspectives of pain experience and its impact on their life. The aims of the study were to describe HRQoL and the prevalence of pain in a nonclinical population of children and adolescents, and to analyze the relationships between HRQoL, pain, sex, and age in a sample of children and adolescents aged 8–18 years. Methods This cross-sectional study involved a cluster sample of 20 randomly selected schools drawn within a region of Norway. The final study sample included 1099 children and adolescents. We measured HRQoL using the generic…
La productividad científica en drogodependencias desde las revistas específicas
2011
From general population surveys and specific studies data, an epidemiological description is offered. Since 1994, the year of the fi rst Spanish school survey, until 2008, in all temporal references alcohol use trend was slightly decreasing for both boys and girls, though less for girls that showed somewhat higher prevalences in recent years. Drunkenness prevalence trend among those students drinking alcohol during the last 30 days has increased and was higher for boys. For cannabis and cocaine there was an increasing trend until 2004; trends for ecstasy and hallucinogens were less marked towards lower prevalences in recent years; all of them were higher in boys. Girls had higher prevalence…