Nicotine Dependence in Adolescence and Physical Health Symptoms in Early Adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

To examine the prospective associations of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders nicotine dependence (ND) and other individual and parental factors in adolescence on self-reported health symptoms in early adulthood.

Methods

Multiethnic prospective longitudinal cohort of adolescents from grades 6-10 and a parent (N = 908) from the Chicago Public Schools. Adolescents were interviewed five times at 6-month intervals (Waves 1-5) and once 4.5 years later (Wave 6). Parents were interviewed annually three times (W1, W3, W5). Multivariate regressions estimated prospective associations of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ND, other individual and familial risk factors in adolescence (mean age 16.6) on physical health symptoms in early

SUBMITTER: Griesler PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5942607 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature