TY - JOUR
T1 - Craving in crack cocaine users according to individual and behavioral characteristics
AU - Silveira, Karine Langmantel
AU - de Oliveira, Michele Mandagará
AU - Nunes, Bruno Pereira
AU - Alves, Poliana Farias
AU - Pereira, Gabriela Botelho
N1 - Article derived from the Master’s Degree thesis “The influence of social determinants of health in the variation of craving levels in crack users”, defended by Karine Langmantel Silveira at the Postgraduate Program in Nursing of the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) in 2017. Study funded with resources from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)/ Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC): Process No. 402777/2010-7.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Objective: to analyze variation in craving levels according to individual and behavioral characteristics of crack cocaine users at two public treatment services in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Methods: this was a cross sectional study with a sample of 133 participants; the Cocaine Craving Questionnaire scale was used to verify craving levels. Results: 86% of interviewees had moderate and severe craving levels; regarding individual factors, a higher level of severe craving was found in women (45%), those with brown skin color/“mestizos” (60%), low schooling (46%) and minor psychiatric disorders (59%); regarding behavioral factors, the level of severe craving was higher in users who divorced the last year (44%), those who had problems with the Law (61%), those who practiced violence acts (57%), those using more than four psychoactive substances (67%), and those with heavy crack consumption (57%). Conclusion: almost all crack users were found to have high craving levels; these were proportionally higher in some individual and behavioral variables.
AB - Objective: to analyze variation in craving levels according to individual and behavioral characteristics of crack cocaine users at two public treatment services in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Methods: this was a cross sectional study with a sample of 133 participants; the Cocaine Craving Questionnaire scale was used to verify craving levels. Results: 86% of interviewees had moderate and severe craving levels; regarding individual factors, a higher level of severe craving was found in women (45%), those with brown skin color/“mestizos” (60%), low schooling (46%) and minor psychiatric disorders (59%); regarding behavioral factors, the level of severe craving was higher in users who divorced the last year (44%), those who had problems with the Law (61%), those who practiced violence acts (57%), those using more than four psychoactive substances (67%), and those with heavy crack consumption (57%). Conclusion: almost all crack users were found to have high craving levels; these were proportionally higher in some individual and behavioral variables.
KW - Crack Cocaine
KW - Craving
KW - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW - Drug Users
KW - Health Vulnerability
KW - Social Determinants of Health
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U2 - 10.5123/S1679-49742019000100022
DO - 10.5123/S1679-49742019000100022
M3 - Article
C2 - 30970076
AN - SCOPUS:85064721227
SN - 1679-4974
VL - 28
JO - Epidemiologia e Servicos de Saude
JF - Epidemiologia e Servicos de Saude
IS - 1
M1 - e2018304
ER -