کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
900169 915419 2007 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Patterns of substance use onset among Hispanics in Puerto Rico and the United States
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Patterns of substance use onset among Hispanics in Puerto Rico and the United States
چکیده انگلیسی

PurposeExamine patterns of progression in substance use among Hispanic youth 13 to 17 years of age from two longitudinally representative studies.MethodPatterns of substance use among youth in Puerto Rico were examined using a longitudinal study (n = 663) of adolescents living on the island. The National Longitudinal Study of Youth was used to examine patterns of substance use among Hispanics living in the United States (n = 1445). Latent transition analysis was used to estimate the probability of membership in each stage of substance use and incidence of transitions between different substance use stages over time.ResultsSix stages best described the heterogeneity in substance use among youth in Puerto Rico. Five stages were sufficient to describe patterns of substance use among youth in the United States. Youth living in Puerto Rico reported lower rates of smoking and illicit drug use, but higher rates of alcohol use, when compared with rates among Hispanics in the United States.DiscussionSimilar patterns of substance use were identified for Hispanic youth living in the United States and youth living in Puerto Rico.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Addictive Behaviors - Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2007, Pages 2432–2437
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