Substance familiarity in middle childhood and adolescent substance use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood familiarity with (knowledge of) substances is a potentially important, currently understudied adolescent substance use risk factor. We aimed to describe changes in childhood familiarity with substances and to test whether baseline familiarity predicts early adolescent substance use.

Methods

Utilizing the Substance Use Module of the longitudinal cohort study, Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD; US youth aged 9-10 years followed for 10 years) through Data Release 4 (n=7896; individuals who completed all six assessments in the first three years), we conducted longitudinal mixed models and survival analyses to describe changes in familiarity and to determine the adjusted odds of substance use by age 13 based on number of familiar substances at base

SUBMITTER: Bhatia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10530461 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature