The community epidemiology of underage drinking: variation across communities in relations of risk to alcohol use.

ABSTRACT: To test the assumption embedded in state-of-the-art, community assessment and decision-making regarding prevention of underage drinking: that there is minimal variation in the way that risk and protective factors (RPF) are associated with underage drinking across communities. Three large datasets provided the same measures of adolescent alcohol use and RPFs. Multilevel ordered-logistic regression models were carried out separately for each dataset and separately for males and females in 8th and 10th grades, testing random slopes for each RPF index. Predicted school-level coefficients were derived from these models, representing the association between RPFs and alcohol use. The variation in associations between RPFs and alcohol use across schools was greatest for antisocial peer risk and co

SUBMITTER: Feinberg ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3771094 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature