[Factors associated with susceptibility to cigarette consumption in 10 and 11 year old school students from Cartagena, Colombia].

Objective: To determine associated factors to susceptibility to smoking in school students between 10 and 11 years old from Cartagena, Colombia.

Method: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted with a nonrandom convenience sample of 289 students between 10 and 11 years old of sixth-grade from public schools in Cartagena, Colombia. The information was collected through the demographic profile, the scale of susceptibility to persuasion towards consumption, the family Apgar scale, Rosenberg for self-esteem and Zung anxiety scale, and the smoking use inventory together with the attitudes on it, according to the Encuesta Mundial Sobre Tabaquismo en jóvenes (Emtajoven).

[Secondary students' knowledge about HIV-AIDS (Cartagena, Colombia)].

Objective: Determining the level of HIV/AIDS knowledge amongst high-students living in Cartagena, Colombia.

Method: A cross-sectional study was designed using a sample of secondary school students who completed a six-question questionnaire about their knowledge of HIV/AIDS and the myths related to it. Logistic regression was used for adjusting associations.

[Public university students' psychosocial factors associated with legal and illegal substance consumption].

Objective: Determining the prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with public university students' legal and illegal substance consumption.

Method: This was across-sectional study of 1,359 randomly selected students. The harvesting instrument included the CAGE questionnaire and VESPA,WHO, Rosenberg, Francis and APGAR scales.

[Cigarette smoking and the risk of high-school students becoming dependent on nicotine].

Objective: Establishing cigarette smoking prevalence, the factors associated with it and the risk of nicotine dependence in adolescents attending school in Cartagena, Colombia.

Method: This was a cross-sectional study of a probability sample of 1,152 adolescent students from public and private schools in Cartagena. Students anonymously and individually completed a questionnaire containing sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics.