Factors related with drug consumption in children's population

BACKGROUND: To analyse the correlates of drug consumption in children's pop ulation. METHOD: Analyse interviews corresponding to children younger than 15 years old of the Catalan Health Survey (n = 2,433) RESULTS: The 25% consumed some drug in the previous 2 days. The factors rel ated to drug consumption were low age, living in Barcelona (OR = 1.3), repo rting double coverage (OR = 1.6), physician visits in the past 15 days (OR = 2.4), and reporting health problems, CONCLUSIONS: Drug consumption in children is high. It seems necessary to im prove the education of families and health professionals related to drug co nsumption.