Catherine M. Dormitzer|Gonzalo González|Marcel Penna|Julio Bejarano|Patricia Obando|Mauricio Rueda Sánchez|Kenneth Vittetoe|Ulises Gutiérrez|Juan José Ballester Alfaro|Guillermo Alonso Meneses|Jorge Bolivar Diaz|Manuel Herrera|Julia Hasbún|Anna McG Chisman|Luis Caris|Chuan?Yu Chen|James C. Anthony
The PACARDO research project: youthful drug involvement in Central America and the Dominican Republic
Johns Hopkins University|Saint Thomas Hospital|Virginia Commonwealth University|National Autonomous University of Nicaragua|National Autonomous University of Honduras|Ministry of Health|Departamento de Epidemiología|Michigan State University|Organization of American States|University of Chile|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Michigan State University|Michigan United
objectiveto estimate occurrence schoollevel clustering drug involvement among schoolattending adolescent youths seven countries latin america drawing upon evidence pacardo research project multinational collaborative epidemiological research studymethodsduring 1999during 2000 anonymous selfadministered questionnaires drug involvement related behaviors administered crosssectional nationally representative sample included total 12 797 students following seven countries costa rica n 1 702 dominican republic n 2 023 el salvador n 1 628 guatemala n 2 530 honduras n 1 752 nicaragua n 1 419 panama n 1 743the pacardo name concatenates pa panam ca centroamrica rdo repblica dominicanaestimates exposure opportunity actual use alcohol tobacco inhalants marijuana cocaine crackcoca paste amphetamines methamphetamines tranquilizers ecstasy heroin assessed via responses questions age first chance try drug first uselogistic regression models accounting complex survey design used estimate associations interest