Psychosocial stressors and current e-cigarette use in the youth risk behavior survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study explores the association between psychosocial stressors and current e-cigarette use among adolescents in the United States.

Methods

We used data from 12,767 participants in the 2019 National Youth Risk Behavioral Survey to examine the association between psychosocial stressors (bullying, sexual assault, safety-related absence from school, depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, physical altercation, and weapon threats) and past-30-day e-cigarette use using multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models. We examined the association for each stressor and then as a burden score (0-7). To compare the strength of the association between stressors and current e-cigarette use to current combustible cigarette use, we additionally examined the association bet

SUBMITTER: Erhabor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242777 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature