Características sociodemográficas e perfis de uso de maconha entre brasileiros

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Paulo Rogerio [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Marijuana; Survey; Quality Of Life; Mental Health; CUDIT-R; Maconha; Qualidade De Vida; Saúde Mental
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=7788623; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/59568

To increase the knowledge concerning the sociodemographic characteristics, quality of life and mental health of people living in Brazil who use marijuana at least four timeper month.Methods: through advertisements on the Facebook virtual social network, 9499 individuals were recruited who agreed to participate in the survey and answered the questionnaires and scales arranged in online forms.After the electronic data capture and application of exclusion criteria, data adherence to normal distribution was verified with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.Participants were then allocated into three subgroups based on their reported frequency of cannabis use: ―nonusers‖ (never used or just tried); ―Occasional users‖ (up to four times a month), ―regular users‖ (between two and three times a week) and ―frequent users‖ (four or more times a week) and descriptive measures were calculated based on these subgroups. The Cramer‘s coefficient (V) was used to verify the association between the frequency of cannabis use with categorical variables, and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to verify the association between the frequency of cannabis use with numerical variables.To verify the factors associated with the frequency of marijuana use and to estimate the magnitudes of these associations, logistic regression analyzes were performed.A significance level of 0.05 was adopted at all analyzes.Results: the analyzed sample consisted of 7850 adults (mean ± SD of 23.9 ± 7.4 years), with predominance of frequent marijuana users (60.2%), men (70.4%), living in the South, Southeast or Midwest regions (80.3%), without children (84.0%), with some religion (62.9%), working (52.8%) and higher education (56 , 5%).Significant differences were detected between non-users and user groups concerning to sociodemographic characteristics (more women, more religious, lower proportion of paid work and higher proportion of students among non-users), involvement with other drugs (experimentation and past month use, except for opiates), quality of life (worse quality of life for non-users, except in the environmental dimension) and presence of psychiatric symptoms (higher prevalence of possible cases of anxiety and depression among non-users).Conclusion: the present study gathered information about the sociodemographic characteristics, the cannabis and other drugs use, quality of life, and mental health in a sample of heavy cannabis users. Despite the limitations that are discussed, the results reveal that even a heavy pattern of cannabis use is not necessarily associated with lower quality xviii of life or with the presence of psychiatric symptoms when compared to nonusers. Studies with more robust designs are needed to better understand the relationship between frequent cannabis use with the quality of life and the mental health of Brazilian adults.