Parental practices and their association with alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent alcohol and cannabis use are common in Chile. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between perceived parenting practices and alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in a Latin American context.

Methods

We adapted and implemented a substance use prevention strategy in Chile, which included surveys of tenth-grade students from six municipalities in the Metropolitan Region of Greater Santiago. We assessed the reliability and factorial structure of the parenting scale with 16 items, which formed part of the survey. We dichotomized parenting scores into high (above the median) and low. The association of parenting practices with alcohol and cannabis use in adolescents was assessed using multivariate multilevel regression models.

Results</

SUBMITTER: Libuy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10520567 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature