Table 4 |
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Overview of the reason categories in which one or several reasons were reported for each behaviour |
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Reason categories |
Starting ecstasy use |
Using ecstasy |
Using more ecstasy |
Not ceasing ecstasy use |
Not starting ecstasy |
Using less ecstasy |
Ceasing ecstasy use |
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Addiction, fear of becoming dependent |
✘ |
± |
± |
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Availability/price/quality of ecstasy |
N |
± |
± |
- |
+ |
± |
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Changing life circumstances (moving in or out of a certain lifestyle) |
± |
± |
± |
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Curiosity (or lack of curiosity) |
N |
± |
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Decreased drug effects or decreased appreciation of drug effects |
± |
± |
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Denying or forgetting negative effects |
N |
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Desire to be on the same level as friends (i.e. to be similarly intoxicated) |
N |
+ |
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Ecstasy is overrated |
N |
± |
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Ease of administration |
N |
N |
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Enhance energy and dancing |
+ |
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Enhance mood (to feel good) |
N |
+ |
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Enhance other substances' effects |
± |
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Enhance sex |
+ |
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Enhance social interaction |
+ |
- |
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Enhance/change sensory perception |
+ |
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Experienced no or unpleasant ecstasy effects |
± |
N |
± |
± |
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Experienced very pleasant effects |
+ |
N |
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Fear of ecstasy's effects |
± |
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Feeling safe about ecstasy contents and ecstasy use setting |
N |
+ |
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Help lose weight |
- |
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Help you to concentrate, work, or study |
- |
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Intoxication, losing inhibitions |
N |
+ |
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Legal consequences |
± |
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Minimising ecstasy comedown |
+ |
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Minimising health risks or fear of health risks |
± |
+ |
+ |
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Noticed mood/affective/cognitive changes in oneself |
± |
+ |
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Observation of others using ecstasy |
± |
N |
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Other's bad experience/mood/affective/cognitive changes/death |
± |
± |
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Own bad experience |
± |
+ |
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Positive effects outweigh negative effects |
N |
N |
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Presence or lack of opportunity |
+ |
± |
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Recreation/relaxation/stop worrying |
N |
+ |
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Responsibilities or relationship problems |
± |
+ |
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Self-medication |
± |
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Social influence (friends use ecstasy or quit using ecstasy) |
± |
- |
N |
- |
- |
± |
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Social influence from relatives |
- |
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Spirituality |
+ |
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Note: + denotes highly relevant categories; ± denotes moderately relevant categories; -denotes minimally relevant categories; N denotes that no relevance information was available; ✘ denotes irrelevant reasons. |
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Peters and Kok BMC Public Health 2009 9:230 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-230 |
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