Using Attitudes, Age and Gender to Estimate an Adolescent's Substance Use Risk.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a strategy for estimating an individual's risk of alcohol, cigarette and cannabis use that relies on an assessment of an adolescent's age, gender and attitude.

Methodology

The authors assembled surveys from 35,987 11 through 17 year-olds assembled from 36 databases were analysed to examine the relationship between attitude and behaviour.

Findings

Attitudes were strongly correlated with concurrent use of alcohol, drunkenness, smoking, and cannabis, with point biserial correlations of -0.555, -0.517, -0.552 and -0.476, respectively. Logistic regression provided a means for using age, gender and attitudes to estimate an individual's risk of engaging in substance use behaviour. Developmental changes in attitudes were estimat

SUBMITTER: Hansen WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5417548 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature