Neighborhood linking social capital as a predictor of drug abuse: A Swedish national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study examines the association between the incidence of drug abuse (DA) and linking (communal) social capital, a theoretical concept describing the amount of trust between individuals and societal institutions.

Methods

We present results from an 8-year population-based cohort study that followed all residents in Sweden, aged 15-44, from 2003 through 2010, for a total of 1,700,896 men and 1,642,798 women. Linking social capital was conceptualized as the proportion of people in a geographically defined neighborhood who voted in local government elections. Multilevel logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and between-neighborhood variance.

Results

We found robust associations between linking social capital and DA in men and women. For men, t

SUBMITTER: Sundquist J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5064149 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature