Maltrato en la infancia y consumo de drogas en adolescentes de preparatoria

Objective: To know the relationship between abuse in childhood and drug use in adolescents. Materials and methods: Descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study; Using stratified random sampling, high school adolescents were selected. A personal data card, the child abuse questionnaire3, and the AUDIT questionnaire were applied, validated and used in the Mexican population, in previous investigations. taking into account the regulations of the general health law regarding health research20. Results: 239 adolescents from a public high school participated, the ages ranged from 15 to 19 years (M = 16.41; SD = 1.04), women predominated with 54.5%. In the variable of abuse in childhood and subscales by sex, a significant difference was found in the physical abuse subscale, showing that men (Mdn = 7.00/M = 8.11, SD = 3.08) had a higher physical abuse score compared to women. (Mdn = 7.00/M = 7.28, SD = 2.64) with a U = 5760.0, p