Publications by authors named "Maria Luz Martinez-Fernandez"
Objective: To determine the changes in hazardous drinking in adolescents in the last decade, as well as their motivations and experiences.
Design: Firstly, a descriptive design using a self-report questionnaire, and secondly an explanatory qualitative design, with video recordings of discussion groups with content analysis (coding, triangulation of categories and verification of results).
Setting And Participants: Pupils from an urban High School, administering a questionnaire every 3 years from 2004 to 2013.
Objectives: To find out the motivation (attitudes, beliefs and experiences) behind adolescent alcohol consumption.
Design: Qualitative methodology, explanatory method, using conversational techniques (discussion group with 6-8 adolescents/group, 50min duration) recorded by videotape during the school year 2008/09.
Participants And Context: Adolescents 12-18 years-old of a middle-class urban school (Jaen-Spain).
Objectives: To find out the structure and functioning of the family of the adolescent and its changes in the last decade.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study using questionnaires.
Setting And Population: Pupils in obligatory secondary education and high-school in one rural (Granada) and one urban (Jaén) area.
[Family structure and function during adolescence: relationship with social support, tobacco, alcohol and drugs consumption, and psychic discomfort].
Aten Primaria
February 2007
Objectives: To find out the family structure and functionality of the family of the adolescent and their relationships with social support, consumption of drugs and alcohol, and psychic discomfort.
Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study.
Setting And Population: Pupils in obligatory secondary education in one rural and one urban area.