Illicit drug use research in Latin America:: Epidemiology, service use, and HIV
Illicit drug use research in Latin America:: Epidemiology, service use, and HIV
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DOI：
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.05.010
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Rosales, Heidi
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作者：
Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio;Medina-Mora, Maria Elena;Rosales, Heidi
本文旨在回顾拉丁美洲非法药物使用的研究现状及其数据来源，特别关注过去15年来在非法药物使用流行病学、服务利用以及艾滋病毒与药物使用之间关系方面的研究。本文补充了在同一卷中发表的一系列文章，这些文章研究了居住在美国的拉丁美洲人的药物滥用研究（流行病学，预防和治疗）和艾滋病毒预防。本综述是使用以下数据库进行广泛的国际和国内检索的结果：Current Contents Connect、Social and Behavioral Sciences、EBSCO、EMBASE（R）Psychiatry、Evidence Based Medicine（通过奥维德）、Medline、Neurosciences、PsychINFO、Pubmed、BIREME/PAHO/WHO - Virtual Health Library和SciELO。选择进一步审查的论文包括在同行评审期刊上以西班牙语、英语和葡萄牙语发表的论文。从审查的证据中发现，已发表的研究文献主要集中在描述性流行病学调查，主要提供患病率和相关因素的一般信息。关于提供服务和艾滋病毒预防与治疗模式的证据有限。这项研究的累积范围清楚地表明，拉丁美洲各国的研究在数量和质量上存在差异，需要在数据收集要素、方法和建立国际合作研究网络方面实现更大的统一。(c)2006爱思唯尔爱尔兰有限公司保留所有权利。
The purpose of this article is to review the research status of illicit drug use and its data sources in Latin America, with particular attention to the research that has been produced in the past 15 years in epidemiology of illicit drug use, services utilization, and relationship between HIV and drug use. This article complements the series of articles that are published in this same volume which examine drug abuse research (epidemiology, prevention, and treatment) and HIV prevention in Latinos residing in the United States. This review resulted from extensive international and national searches using the following databases: Current Contents Connect, Social and Behavioral Sciences; EBSCO; EMBASE(R) Psychiatry; Evidence Based Medicine (through OVID); Medline, Neurosciences, PsychINFO, Pubmed, BIREME/PAHO/WHO - Virtual Health Library, and SciELO. Papers selected for further review included those published in Spanish, English, and Portuguese in peer-reviewed journals. From the evidence reviewed, it was found that the published research literature is heavily concentrated on descriptive epidemiologic surveys, providing primarily prevalence rates and general information on associated factors. Evidence on patterns of service delivery and HIV prevention and treatment is limited. The cumulative scope of this research clearly indicates variability in quantity and quality of research across Latin American nations and the need for greater uniformity in data collection elements, methodologies, and the creation of international collaborative research networks. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.