Prospective association between screen use modalities and substance use experimentation in early adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are limited large-scale, prospective analyses examining contemporary screen use and substance use experimentation in early adolescents. The current study aimed to determine associations between eight forms of contemporary screen modalities and substance use experimentation one year later in a national cohort of 11-12-year-olds in the United States.

Methods

The sample consisted of 8006 early adolescents (47.9 % female and 41.6 % racial/ethnic minority) from the prospective cohort data of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Logistic regression analyses were conducted to evaluate the prospective associations between screen time (eight different types and total) in Year 2 and substance use experimentation (alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, any su

SUBMITTER: Nagata JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784702 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature