Validação de um instrumento de triagem para identificação de filhos de alcoolistas, aplicável por pessoal não especializado

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Fioretto, Amanda Cristina [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Adolescentes; Alcoolismo - Prevenção; Jovens - Uso de álcool; Crianças; Pais e adolescentes; Psicotropicos; Alcoholism - Prevention
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123698; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/11-06-2015/000831204.pdf

Psychoactive substances, including alcohol, are considered a major public health problem in almost all over the world, however it hasn't been given the proper importance it deserves. According to the World Health Organization, about 40% of the population of the world over the age of 15 die as a result of the serious consequences of this drinking. In Brazil, alcohol is the most used licit drug,and it is associated with harms to the body, to the mind and to the social context. Alcoholism is a disease with a high transgenerational rate, particularly in cases of paternal alcoholism, so that children of alcoholic fathers may have a four times higher risk of becoming alcoholics as adults, in addition to risks of developing behavioral, psychiatric problems and learning disabilities; it also can affect family relationship. The aim of this research is to validate quantitatively the Children of Alcoholic Screening Test (CAST) instrument in Brazil, besides testing the relation between parental alcoholism and the test scores obtained by their children, so it can be used by non-specialist staff. The test was performed in 45 children / adolescents within the 10 to 17 years age range. The results obtained indicate that TEFA (portuguese translation of CAST) is applicable in Brazil by non-specialist staff, helping to identify, through their children, alcoholic parents in early stages of their alcohol problems, and allowing also a closer follow up of these children in order to preventing the development of future problems