PREVALÊNCIA E FATORES ASSOCIADOS AO TRANSTORNO DA CONDUTA: UM ESTUDO DE BASE POPULACIONAL

Abstract

This study purposed to estimate the prevalence and the behavioral factors associated with the conduct disorder in adolescents aged between 11 and 15 years old. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1145 adolescents. The informed consent was signed by the parents or the responsible for the adolescent before he/she answered a self-administered questionnaire. The conduct disorder was assessed through the M.I.N.I. Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, a compatible instrument with the criteria of the DSM-III-R/IV and the CID-10. It was assessed whether this pathology was associated with gender, age, socioeconomic status, adolescent schooling, failure at school, religion, use of tobacco, sedentarism, alcohol consumption, drug use, depression and bullying. The ordinal regression was used for the statistics analysis with a hierarchic model for the outcome. It is estimated that, among the interviewees, 29,2% has conduct disorder. After the adjustment made for the hierarchic model, the adolescents chances presented one point more in Conduct Disorder scale is 2,04 (IC95% 1,53-2,71) times higher in male sex. The pathology was also associated with age, socioeconomic status, alcoholic beverages consume, drug use and bullying. The results also shown that the factors associated with the conduct disorder point to a strong interrelation between health behaviors in adolescence