A cross-cultural examination of adverse childhood experiences in low-and middle-income countries and their relation with adolescent educational aspirations.

Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur before the age of 18. Researchers have examined the negative associations between adversity and adolescent and adult outcomes, such as education and physical health. However, research on ACEs, and their association with other outcomes in non-western contexts is sparse.

[Perceptions of adolescents Jalisco campaign on breast cancer].

Background: Breast cancer campaigns and awareness strategies with limited evidence of their effectiveness in youth. Behavioral model of perception that shows how individuals choose, organize and interpret information. This study shows the perceptions of youth from Jalisco regarding breast cancer campaigns.

[The social representation that adolescents from Jalisco, Mexico have of early detection of breast cancer].

Purpose: To describe the social representation that adolescents from Jalisco, Mexico, have of early detection of breast cancer.

Design: Qualitative cross, analytical interpretative and based on the theory of social representations. Non-probability sampling.

Social representations used by the parents of Mexican adolescent drug users under treatment to explain their children's drug use: gender differences in parental narratives.

The aim of this study was to explore the social representations used by the parents of adolescent drug users to explain the onset of drug use. Differences in explanations between the parents of male and female adolescents were also explored. Sixty parents who accompanied their children to four rehabilitation centers in 2004 completed two semi-structured questionnaires.

[Knowledge and attitudes about using emergency contraceptives among young college students].

Objective: to identify the knowledge and attitudes regarding the use of emergency contraceptives (the day-after pill) with a gender viewpoint, among young college students affiliated to Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.

Method: a cross-sectional survey was applied to 583 freshmen college students at the Health Sciences University Center of the University of Guadalajara. The quantitative probe included: knowledge about emergency contraceptives (EC) and attitudes concerning the use of EC.

[Factors associated to tobacco-smoking pattern in school teenagers].

Objective: to evaluate the association between tobacco-smoking patterns and family and school variables in school teenagers from Guadalajara, Mexico.

Methods: 556 high school students at the Universidad de Guadalajara participated in the study. The analysis included the following risk factors: parental, siblings and friends smoking habits, being employed while studying, being an irregular student, school shift (morning/evening), and history of rejection in their first application to enter high-school.

[Violence against women and family medicine].

Background: prevalence of violence against women in Mexico fluctuate within 30 to 60%, but health and court administration institutions' numbers are under real ones, they only include extreme violence or pressed charges against them aggressor.

Objective: To asses the level of knowledge on the norms and procedures for the attention of domestic violence in family practitioners workers of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Colima, México.

Material And Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the September-December 2005 period.

[Ericksonian hypnosis in women with fibromyalgia syndrome].

Background: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FS) is a chronic, painful, generalized musculoskeletal disorder in which some efficacy for the conventional hypnosis modality has been claimed.

Objective: to assess the efficacy of the Ericksonian modality hypnosis in FS management.

Material And Methods: Forty-three FS female patients (44 +/- 4.

[Results in short term of educational program "parents' school" about family environment].

Objective: Evaluation of effect in short term of the parents school program (PSP) about the family environment and the different results between participating and non-participating parents.

Material And Methods: A cohort study was performed on 112 parents of students from the High School 5 (University of Guadalajara) during six months, 61 parents received the program (intervention group, IG) and 51 were the control group (CG). The program was made in 17 weekly interactive meetings, where the topics were: adolescent psychology and sexuality; parent-children relationship; family communication; self esteem; and addiction prevention.

Why do adolescents use drugs? A common sense explanatory model from the social actor's perspective.

Analysis was made of the common sense explanations of 60 Mexican teenage illicit drug users in rehabilitation to determine their drug use debut. The explanatory model was separated into three blocks, two of which contained common sense aspects: interaction between subject's plane and the collectivity; and relationship between subject's interior (subject-family) and exterior (environment or group-pressure). Based on these data, we propose that drug use debut may be linked to subjects' emotional vulnerability which originates in the family image and renders them more susceptible to the influence of others.

[Prevalence and functional impact of arthropathies in elderly adults].

Introduction: Musculoskeletal disorders are public health issues in the entire world; their impact seems to be higher on elderly people.

Objective: To establish the prevalence and the functional impact of arthropathies on the elderly people from Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Material And Methods: The SABE-PAHO survey was administered to a random sample of people older than 60 Mérida, Yucatán, México.

Tobacco consumption and motives for use in Mexican university students.

Increased tobacco consumption, especially among adolescents and females, has been observed recently in Mexico. The goal of this study is to describe tobacco consumption and motives for use among university students. A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed using data provided by 282 students aged 15-24 studying at the University of Guadalajara's University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS).

[The social representation guiding parental decisions to face drug consumption of their teenage children].

Objective: To identify the social representation guiding decisions of parents of teenage drug users to face consumption of their children.

Material And Methods: A qualitative study using free lists, characterization questionnaires, and in-depth interviews was performed among 60 systematically selected parents of young drug users who were receiving treatment in Centros de Integración Juvenil. Data analysis included correlations and interpretive analysis.