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Cannabis Use among Secondary School Students in Jamaica: Factors Associated with Age of Initiation

Issue:

Vol 66, Issue 5: 2017 (Special Issue on Cannabis)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2017.214

Pages:

546-52

Synopsis:

The aim of the study was to determine whether perception of risk and accessibility of cannabis predicted the age of initiation of cannabis among secondary school students in Jamaica. Whereas there was a significant inverse association between grade level in school and age of initiation, perceptions of access did not predict the age of initiation of cannabis.

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Received:

06 Oct, 2017

Accepted:

23 Oct, 2017

Published:

29 Dec, 2017

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Accessibility to cannabis

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e-Published: 26 Oct, 2017

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Suicide among Adolescents in Jamaica: What Do We Know?

Issue:

Vol 61, Issue 5 (2012) - Special Issue on Mental Health

Pages:

516–20

Synopsis:

For the period 2007–2010, the adolescent suicide rate in Jamaica was 1.1 per 100 000 adolescents with a preponderance of male deaths by hanging.

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Objective: Suicide is increasingly acknowledged as a global problem. Yet little is known worldwide about suicide rates among adolescents. Several social factors that exist in Jamaica present as stressors and may predispose to suicide. Ascertaining prevailing patterns and associated factors is important for crafting interventions. This paper establishes adolescent suicide rates for the years 2007–2010 in Jamaica and provides related epidemiological data.

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