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Factores de riesgo asociados al consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en adolescentes de una institución educativa

Resumen

This study aims to provide a vision based on the characteristics of the territory in which the adolescents developed, where micro-trafficking and violence between criminal gangs are common, in addition to the context of poverty and little social investment of the state that increases the probability of adolescents to see as a single exit to be part of the illicit acts of the neighborhood, since job or educational opportunities are not visible and easily accessible, for which Law 1090 of 2006 is taken into account. Therefore, the present investigation is interested in the study of risk factors related to the consumption of psychoactive substances (SPA) in adolescents from 12 to 16 years of the Arnulfo Briceño Contreras Educational Institution in the city of Villavicencio. For what is proposed from a quantitative approach of a descriptive type with a non-probabilistic sampling, in this sense, it is intended to delve into the variables related to the risk factors to the 80 participants facing this problem, through the application of the FRIDA test, informed consent for both students and parents and Albert Bandura's theory of social learning is taken as a reference. The results showed that at a global level, it was found that the participants are at a moderately high risk of vulnerability to the consumption of psychoactive substances, due to the fact that 59.5% of these were located in values of 11 to 13 in the scale of scales, which is understood as an alarming aspect in terms of the general condition of the participants with respect to the level of risk they have in the SPA, so it is essential to generate intervention strategies aimed at families, with in order to improve relationships, dynamics and links so that there is better family cohesion, as well as prevention in order to delve into everything associated with psychoactive substances to transform the positions, perspectives of parents and children through a appropriate and open education in the face of the problem.