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Sleep Disorders: The Role of Life Events Among Associated Factors
The Life Events and Health (EVS) survey measures the prevalence of five sleep disorders and examines their associations with the sociodemographic characteristics of respondents, as well...
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The Influence of Data Collection Methods on the Measurement of Prevalence Rates of Psychoactive Substance Use: A Comparison Between the EVS Survey and the 2005 Health Barometer
The international literature suggests that people are more likely to admit to using psychoactive substances by checking a box on a self-administered questionnaire—especially when the...
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Alcohol Use Among Youth: Significant One-Time Consumption on the Rise
Alcohol consumption among 15- to 30-year-olds is characterized by relatively infrequent daily drinking (2.5% of this population), but higher rates of heavy episodic drinking (25.5%) and...
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Trends in Smoking Among Youth and Tobacco Control Policies
Today, preventing smoking among young people is all the more critical, as early experimentation is now recognized as a major risk factor for long-term smoking and addiction. Several...
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The INPES Health Barometer: A Tool for Monitoring and Understanding Young People's Health Behaviors
Youth health has been at the center of public debate for several years. A “Youth Health” plan focused on 16- to 25-year-olds was presented by the Ministry of Health, Youth, and Sports in...
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Psychoactive Substance Use and the Workplace.
The "Baromètre Santé" survey conducted by INPES in 2010 makes it possible, given the size of the sample of respondents, to analyze the use of addictive substances by economic sector. -...
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Smoking in France: Analysis of the 2010 Health Barometer Survey
The INPES Health Barometers provide a regular overview of epidemiological surveillance indicators in the general population. These random surveys are conducted by telephone among the...
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Use of Online Health Resources Among 15- to 30-Year-Olds
About half of 15- to 30-year-olds use the Internet to find information or seek advice about health. Three-quarters of them did so in connection with a medical consultation, either before...
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A method for accounting for complete disaggregation in the sampling plan for telephone surveys of households.
Chapter from the following book: Tremblay, M., Lavallée, P., & El Haj Tirari, M. Survey Practices and Methods. Paris: Dunod; 2011. 382 pp. After briefly introducing the Health...
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Drug Use Rates in France in 2010. Analysis of data from the 2010 Health Barometer regarding psychoactive substance use among the adult population.
For the past decade or so, INPES and OFDT have been measuring the prevalence and use of psychoactive substances through surveys of the general population. Conducted among the general...
