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Análisis comparativo de las publicaciones sobre drogodependencias en las revistas de psicología clínica y psiquiatría iberoamericanas indexadas en el Journal Citation Reports
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Quevedo-Blasco, Raúl Díaz-Piedra, Carolina Guglielmi, Ottavia |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | SUMMARYIntroductionDrug consumption has become a social problem requiring political,social, and educational intervention in its prevention and treatment. InLatin America, the drug problem is highly related to the violence andthe social exclusion of the metropolis. Forty percent of the 15-year-olds already smoke. On average, each person in the general populationconsumes approximately 6 kg of alcohol per year: the highest value inthe less developed world. Meanwhile, in Spain, over a million peopleexperience significant difficulties related to drug consumption (notincluding the effects of tobacco) in relation to health, family, labor,and social issues. In 2006, one out of 10 young people between theages 14 and 18 consumed alcohol in an abusive manner more thanfour or five days per month.Drug consumption is a very complex, multi-factor issue withmultiple economic, social, cultural, and personal implications. Themost visible negative effects are observed in health issues andpersonal relationships. In the public scope, the most negative effectsare related to important direct and indirect economic expenses,including the treatment and prevention of drug dependency, thereduction in labor productivity, the increase in charity, the fight againstthe delinquency, and the trafficking of drugs.The present study examines whether or not there is a correspon-dence between the social, public health, and political importance ofdrug dependency and the basic and applied research in Spanish andLatin American scientific literature.There are two objectives for this investigation: first, to quantifythe scientific investigation of drug dependency in the last four yearsin Latin American clinical psychology and psychiatry journals, includedin the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) . The second objective is to statethe differences between the journals in relation to the appliedmethodology, the type of sample used, and the principal topic ofdiscourse.MethodThe units of analysis were articles published by journals selectedbetween the years 2005 and 2008. The following journals wereincluded: Revista Internacional de Psicologia Clinica y de la Salud /International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology , Salud Mental ,Revista Argentina de Clinica Psicologica, Revista Latinoamericanade Psicopatologia Fundamental, Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria,Arquivos de Neuro -Psiquiatria, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, andRevista de Psiquiatria Clinica.All articles of theoretical or empirical character whose titleindicated the topic of drug dependency were included in thisdescriptive study of document analysis. The articles were analyzedand compared on the basis of five variables: the number andproportion of articles on drug dependency and substance abuse inrelation to the total number of articles published by each journalduring the given time period; the type of methodology; the type ofsample; the type of drug studied; and the central findings.ResultsOut of 2246 articles published between the years 2005 and 2008 bythe eight journals analyzed, 152 were about drug dependency. Thisvalue represents 6.77% of the total of the documents published. Ofthese 152 articles, 133 came from psychiatry journals and 19 camefrom clinical psychology journals. These findings imply that, out ofthe total of the articles published, 5.92% correspond to articles ondrug dependency in the psychiatry journals and 0.85% in the clinicalpsychology journals.Among the clinical psychology journals, it is observed that theInternational Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology has publishedthe most articles on drug dependency, with 8%. With regards to thepsychiatry journals, the most articles related to drug dependency werefound in the Revista de Psiquiatria Clinica, with 21.65%. Themethodology most used in the total 152 articles was ex post facto(34.21%), followed by theoretical studies (30.26%), and surveys withprobabilistic samples (12.50%). In turn, in the field of psychiatry andin clinical psychology, the methodology used most was ex post factostudies. The type of sample used most in all of the articles was formedby people who consumed some kind of drug (including alcohol andtobacco) (32.24%), followed by studies without samples (such astheoretical revisions) (26.32%). Generally, alcohol was the drug moststudied (33.08%), followed by tobacco (15.04%), and cocaine (9.02%).It is necessary to emphasize that 38.16% of these studies did notconcentrate on a single type of substance/drug; on the contrary, they |
| Starting Page | 133 |
| Ending Page | 143 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 33 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.medigraphic.com/pdfs/salmen/sam-2010/sam102d.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
