Substance Use Among Adolescents in California: A Latent Class Analysis

Overview

Journal Subst Use Misuse

Publisher Informa Healthcare

Date 2013 Aug 27

PMID 23971853

Citations 19

Authors

Tamika D Gilreath

Ron A Astor

Joey N Estrada

Renee M Johnson

Rami Benbenishty

Jennifer Beth Unger

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Abstract

Data from the California Healthy Kids Survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th graders were used to identify latent classes/clusters of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (N = 418,702). Analyses revealed four latent classes of substance use, which included nonusers (61.1%), alcohol experimenters (some recent alcohol use; 22.8%), mild polysubstance users (lifetime use of all substances with less than 3 days of recent use; 9.2%), and frequent polysubstance users (used all substances three or more times in the past month; 6.9%). The results revealed that alcohol and marijuana use are salient to California adolescents. This information can be used to target and tailor school-based prevention efforts.

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