RESUMO

Club drug use and correlates were examined among 251 Hispanic college students on the Texas-México border. Participants completed questionnaires on substance use, club drug attitudes and beliefs, sexual risk-taking behaviors, depressive symptoms, and acculturation. One-quarter of participants reported club drug use. Regression analyses demonstrated that frequency and history of lifetime use were consistently associated with more permissive drug attitudes and other substance use but not sexual risk-taking, depression symptoms, or acculturation. Acculturation was negatively associated with frequency of club drug use, yet positively associated with use of other illicit substances. Avenues for future studies are suggested.

Assuntos

Usuários de Drogas/psicologia , Hispânico ou Latino/psicologia , Drogas Ilícitas/efeitos adversos , Aculturação , Adulto , Depressão/induzido quimicamente , Feminino , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Humanos , Masculino , México , Assunção de Riscos , Texas , Sexo sem Proteção/efeitos dos fármacos