Concurrent Use of Tobacco and Cannabis and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in US Youths.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about whether concurrent use of tobacco and cannabis is associated with higher or lower levels of mental health problems than use of either substance alone among youths.

Objective

To examine the association between concurrent use of tobacco and cannabis and mental health problems in a national sample of US youths.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study analyzed publicly available wave 6 data within the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a nationally representative cohort study of US youths aged 14 to 17 years, collected from March to November 2021. This analysis used wave 6 single-wave weights to obtain statistically valid estimates for cross-sectional analyses generalizable to the wave 4 cohort s

SUBMITTER: Do VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11222996 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature