Pandemic-related life changes and adolescent initiation of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic required the public to alter their daily lives drastically. For adolescents, school closures and social isolation added further challenges to a stressful stage of life, potentially increasing the likelihood of substance use initiation. This study explored the relationship between adolescent substance use initiation and negative life changes due to COVID-19.

Methods

Students from 9 high schools (N = 2478) in Los Angeles County were surveyed as 9th graders in the 2019-2020 school year and re-surveyed in 10th and 11th grades as part of an ongoing longitudinal study. Two logistic regression models were conducted to test hypotheses that negative life changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic increases the odds of initiation of both tobacco/nicotine pro

SUBMITTER: Herzig SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10103764 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature