Immigrant adolescents and alcohol consumption

Abstract

State secondary school students (ESO) surveys show that alcohol is the most consumed substance in these ages. Other studies show differences in consumption patterns by ethnicity and cultural background and that this may be a risk or protective factor; However, studies with immigrant children in our country are scarce. Are there culture-related risk and protective factors? Six groups
of discussion (DG) on alcohol consumption with ESO Spanish, North African and Latin American students were made in order to analyze, from their own speech, if immigrant children have a similar trend to that of the native in their habit of alcohol or, on the contrary, cultural values and standards influence on the intake or abstinence. For qualitative analysis of DG we procededinto a categorical, thematic and interpretative analysis of discussion through.