Time-varying predictors of e-cigarette and cigarette use trajectories from adolescence to emerging adulthood: a longitudinal analysis of US youth in the PATH Study, 2013-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the longitudinal impact of time-varying factors on US youth's trajectories of initiation and use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

Design

Longitudinal.

Setting

Nationally representative US survey, the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.

Participants

2682 US youth (aged 16-17) at wave (W)1 of the PATH Study across six waves (2013-2020) into young adulthood (aged 22-23).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Unweighted longitudinal latent class analyses identified trajectory classes of e-cigarette and cigarette use, separately. Nationally representative weighted multinomial logistic regression analyses examined time-varying harm perceptions, substance use pr

SUBMITTER: Stanton CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12587908 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature