The start of the consumption of alcohol among young people is made during the ESO.

-the alcohol consumption among the pre-teens is high. The boys are initiated into consumption rather than girls. The percentage of young people which declares to have been drunk increases with age and is similar in both sexes

Spain, 2011-September the study, presented and awarded as the best work in the V Jornadas of exchange of experiences of SAP Bages-Berguedà, made 259 students first (13 years) and third that (15 years) of 5 schools (IES Castellet)(, SES Castellbell, IES Vacarisses, Academy Montserrat and Virgin of the Rosary College) in eight municipalities of the South Bages: Castellbell i el Vilar, Castellgalí, Marganell, Monistrol, Pont de Vilomara, Rellinars, Sant. Vincent and Vacarisses.

The objective was to describe the alcohol consumption among adolescents in an area semi rural as it is the Bages, in the province of Barcelona.

Preliminary results

45% Of pupils in first that and 74% of the second, have drunk at least half a glass of alcoholic beverage ever. Among these students that ever have consumed alcohol, preliminary results show the following:

1.-has not been detected consumption during the week, but change the weekend. In fact, 10% of students in that first and 21 per cent of third consume on weekends. Do also family celebrations, where there are more young people to consume alcohol (34% of the first that pupils who have tried alcohol and 44 per cent of the third).

2. Half of the third that guys who have tried alcohol (50%) recognized that he had drunk some time in the last year. This percentage is lower in the case of pupils in first that (23.5%).
There is no much difference between the sexes.

3. In the same way, 33% of young people from third parties who have tried alcohol acknowledged having consumed on any occasion more than 5 alcoholic beverages at once. In the case of boys and girls of that first, the percentage falls to 9.5% and 2.5% respectively.

4. Finally, more than half of young people expressed that they believed that alcohol was the most fun holidays.

Conclusions

According to Dr.. LAIA Font, one of the authors of the study, “what we saw at the moment, with preliminary data at our disposal, it’s makes the start of the consumption of alcohol among young people during that and that consumption of leisure (with friends, drinking,…)” during the courses greatly increases “.