Within-person associations of escalated electronic nicotine delivery systems use with cigarette, alcohol, marijuana and drug use behaviors among US young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Most extant evidence has addressed between-person differences, short-term or cross-sectional associations of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use with other substance use, the majority focusing on current rather than escalated use. The present study aimed to examine within-person changes in escalated ENDS use and their associations with individual and combined substance use over a 6-year period.

Design, setting and participants

This study used a longitudinal cohort design with US young adults. A generalized linear mixed-model approach was employed to fit a series of weighted logistic regression models. Data were drawn from waves 1-5 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study in the United States. Of the 9110 young adults at baseline, aged

SUBMITTER: Han DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10098511 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature