Minority Adolescents and Substance Use Risk/Protective Factors: A Focus on Inhalant Use.

Despite the fact that inhalant use is a growing problem among youth in the United States, relatively little attention has been paid to the demographic and social factors related to its use. This study used data from a household survey of adolescents in Washington state, and found that race/ethnicity...

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Publicado en:Adolescence Vol. 39; no. 155; pp. 489 - 503
Autores principales: Mosher, Clayton, Rotolo, Thomas, Phillips, Dretha
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Libra Publishers Inc. Fall2004
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        Substance abuse risk factors
        Inhalant abuse
        Youth -- Drug use
        Minority youth
        Underage drinking
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      ab: Despite the fact that inhalant use is a growing problem among youth in the United States, relatively little attention has been paid to the demographic and social factors related to its use. This study used data from a household survey of adolescents in Washington state, and found that race/ethnicity was a strong predictor of lifetime prevalence of inhalant use, with Native-American youth being particularly likely to use inhalants. Comparing the age at initiation of inhalant use to other legal and illegal substances we found that cigarettes and inhalants showed the lowest age at initiation. We conducted logistic regressions on lifetime prevalence of inhalant use, and compared these models to other substances. In general, we found that attachment to parents, parents' drug use, and school attachment were strong predictors of lifetime use of marijuana, alcohol, and inhalants. However, while peer drug use was a strong predictor of marijuana and alcohol use, it was not a significant predictor of adolescents' use of inhalants. Our final set of analyses included inhalant use in regression models predicting other problem behaviors: these analyses demonstrated that inhalant use was a strong predictor of involvement in problem behavior. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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