Prevalence of substance abuse and socio-economic differences in substance abuse in an Australian community-dwelling elderly sample

A sample of 324 55–90-year-old Australian adults participated in a survey on elderly substance abuse using the Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly. Overall, males had a higher prevalence rate of substance abuse than females. Significant differences in substance abuse mean scores were found fo...

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Autores principales: Li, Wendy, Caltabiano, Nerina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Report of Empirical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102917708136
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description A sample of 324 55–90-year-old Australian adults participated in a survey on elderly substance abuse using the Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly. Overall, males had a higher prevalence rate of substance abuse than females. Significant differences in substance abuse mean scores were found for gender, age, income, community involvement, and retirement. The findings also reveal that being a female, involved in community groups, being a retiree, and being a non-baby boomer are protective factors of substance abuse. Being an upper medium income earner appears to be a risk factor of substance abuse.
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spelling pubmed-54380392017-05-31 Prevalence of substance abuse and socio-economic differences in substance abuse in an Australian community-dwelling elderly sample Li, Wendy Caltabiano, Nerina Health Psychol Open Report of Empirical Study A sample of 324 55–90-year-old Australian adults participated in a survey on elderly substance abuse using the Clinical Assessment Scales for the Elderly. Overall, males had a higher prevalence rate of substance abuse than females. Significant differences in substance abuse mean scores were found for gender, age, income, community involvement, and retirement. The findings also reveal that being a female, involved in community groups, being a retiree, and being a non-baby boomer are protective factors of substance abuse. Being an upper medium income earner appears to be a risk factor of substance abuse. SAGE Publications 2017-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5438039/ /pubmed/28567302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102917708136 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Prevalence of substance abuse and socio-economic differences in substance abuse in an Australian community-dwelling elderly sample
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438039/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055102917708136
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