Patterns and correlates of polysubstance use among US youth aged 15–17 years: wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study

Silveira, Marushka L.; Green, Victoria R.; Iannaccone, Robert; Kimmel, Heather L.; Conway, Kevin P.

doi:10.1111/add.14547

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“…Regarding Polysubstance Users, it is important to note that adolescents within this class tended to make combined use of three specific substances, alcoholtobacco-marijuana, at a significantly higher frequency than the three previous groups, which points to a more problematic pattern of use, characterizing 23% of the sample. Classes with a similar pattern of use were also identified in previous studies (Silveira et al 2019;Tomczyk et al 2016). A significantly higher involvement in violence, as an aggressor or a victim, was associated with this pattern of use, in comparison with Abstainers, Drinkers and Conventional Users.…”

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confidence: 78%

Substance Use and Involvement in Situations of Violence: A Typological Study of a Brazilian Population-Based Sample

Komatsu

Costa

Galinari

et al. 2019

Int. ann. criminol.

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Substance use in adolescence relates to other problems such as involvement in violence and mental/physical health problems. This study aimed to identify substance use patterns in a considerable sample of Brazilian adolescents and to estimate the magnitude of the relationship between each pattern and violence involvement indicators, as aggressor and/or as victim, and of mental and general health. The data analyzed were collected from 6702 schoolchildren, within the scope of the National Survey of School Health, employing latent class analysis for reports of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and crack cocaine use. The five groups identified were compared regarding their involvement in violence and mental and general health aspects. Abstainers (18%) would neither make use of substances, nor be involved in violence or display health problems. Drinkers (26%) would tend to only make use of alcohol, but would not display the other problems either. Conventional Drug Users (28%) would tend to make use of alcohol and tobacco or alcohol and marijuana and would also be involved in violence, but would not display health problems. Polysubstance Users (23%) would tend to make use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana and would be more frequently involved in violence. Hard Drug Users (5%) would tend to make frequent use of all substances in addition to also being more involved in violence, both as aggressor and victim, and would display mental/general health problems. Our findings reveal different levels of problems and reinforce the importance of varied prevention/treatment policies in order to meet specific demands.

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confidence: 78%

Substance Use and Involvement in Situations of Violence: A Typological Study of a Brazilian Population-Based Sample

Komatsu

Costa

Galinari

et al. 2019

Int. ann. criminol.

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“…Throughout all four cohorts, adolescents who reported more psychosomatic problems were more likely to be in the alcohol and polysubstance use classes rather than the non/low use class, in line with other LCA studies [21]. We hypothesized that psychosomatic problems would be less strongly associated with patterns of substance use in the earlier cohorts, when substance use was more common, compared to the later cohorts when it was less common.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…One LCA study revealed that females were more likely to use different types of substances [9], whereas others found that class probabilities for substance use classes did not differ between males and females [23]. Similarly, some studies found that females were more likely to be included in tobacco and polysubstance use classes [21], but others found that males were more likely to be included in a polysubstance use class or typology [23,34]. Other studies did not observe sex differences [22,25,26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Latent class analysis (LCA) is an optimal way to understand nuanced patterns of behavior by identifying mutually exclusive and homogeneous subgroups within a heterogeneous population [18,19]. Several studies have been published using LCA to investigate patterns of adolescent substance use [9,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Most studies identified three to four classes, including non/low use, mainly alcohol, and polysubstance use classes [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A latent class analysis of changes in adolescent substance use between 1988 and 2011 in Sweden: associations with sex and psychosomatic problems

2020

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Aims To characterize changes in patterns of adolescent substance use in Sweden between 1988 and 2011, and to assess whether sex and psychosomatic problems were associated with substance use and whether these associations changed over time. Design Secondary analysis of repeated cross‐sectional survey data. Survey data were collected eight times and analyzed as four cohorts (1988–91, 1995–98, 2002–05 and 2008–11). Setting and participants The sample included all 15–16‐year‐olds in Värmland County, Sweden (n = 20 057). Measurements Binary‐coded substance use measures included life‐time use of alcohol and tobacco, getting drunk and past school year use of inhalants. An eight‐item scale was used to assess psychosomatic problems. Findings A three‐class model fitted the data best (i.e. non/low use, mainly alcohol use and polysubstance use). The patterns of substance use were different among cohorts; most notably, adolescents in the last cohort had lower odds of being included in the alcohol and polysubstance use classes rather than the non/low use class than in the earlier cohorts (all Ps < 0.001). Males had higher odds than females of being in the polysubstance use class rather than the non/low use class among the first three cohorts (all Ps < 0.001) but not the last. Sex was not associated with inclusion in the alcohol use class rather than the non/low use class. Adolescents who reported more psychosomatic problems had higher odds of being included in the alcohol and polysubstance use classes rather than the non/low use class (all Ps < 0.001). The associations of sex and psychosomatic problems with class inclusion did not change during the study period. Conclusions Between 1988 and 2011, patterns of substance use among adolescents in Sweden shifted away from polysubstance use and alcohol use to non‐use or low use. Associations between patterns of substance use and sex and psychosomatic problems remained largely consistent across the study period.

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“…The following thresholds were used to categorize participants for each variable: 0–1 symptoms in the past year (low), 2–3 symptoms in the past year (moderate) and 4+ symptoms in the past year (high). Further details have previously been published out of the PATH Study (Conway et al, 2017; Silveira et al, 2019; Pearson et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Physical activity among adolescent tobacco and electronic cigarette users: Cross-sectional findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study

Miller

Smith

Goniewicz

2019

Preventive Medicine Reports

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Research examining relationships between protective health behaviors and tobacco use offers valuable insight regarding the behavior profiles of product users. In particular, protective health behavior trends among adolescent e-cigarette users have not been examined thoroughly to date. This study investigates physical activity patterns among adolescent e-cigarette users, smokers, and dual users of both products, as compared with never users of tobacco products. Data were collected from 8383 youth participants (12–17 years of age) enrolled in Wave 2 (2014–2015) of the nationally-representative Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study. Relationships between use of tobacco products and physical activity were examined via weighted multivariable logistic regression procedures. Compared with never users, each product use group demonstrated an increased likelihood to abstain from moderate-vigorous physical activity. While dual users (aOR = 0.52; 95% CI: 0.30–0.85) and smokers (aOR = 0.53; 95% CI: 0.35–0.71) were less likely than never users to participate in vigorous physical activity, no differences were observed between e-cigarette and never users (aOR = 1.04; 95% CI: 0.74–1.47). Dual users consistently demonstrated the lowest likelihood of physical activity participation. In conclusion, e-cigarette users were more likely to abstain from moderate-vigorous physical activity participation than never users. However, results did not indicate differences in vigorous or muscle-strengthening physical activity participation between e-cigarette users and never users. Though findings specific to moderate-vigorous physical activity demonstrate a behavioral similarity between e-cigarette users and smokers, key differences in vigorous physical activity were observed. Comparatively low physical activity among dual users suggests existence of a behavior profile gradient according to product use.

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Patterns and correlates of polysubstance use among US youth aged 15–17 years: wave 1 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study

Cited by 43 publications

References 30 publications

Substance Use and Involvement in Situations of Violence: A Typological Study of a Brazilian Population-Based Sample

Substance Use and Involvement in Situations of Violence: A Typological Study of a Brazilian Population-Based Sample

A latent class analysis of changes in adolescent substance use between 1988 and 2011 in Sweden: associations with sex and psychosomatic problems

Physical activity among adolescent tobacco and electronic cigarette users: Cross-sectional findings from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health study

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