Exploring associations between early substance use and longitudinal socio-occupational functioning in young people engaged in a mental health service.

ABSTRACT: Neuropsychiatric disorders (including substance misuse) are associated with the greatest burden of functional disability in young people, and contributory factors remain poorly understood. Early-onset substance use is one candidate risk factor which may inform functional prognosis and facilitate direction of interventions aiming to curtail impairment. Accordingly, we modelled associations between early-onset use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and amphetamine-type stimulants (ATSs) and longitudinal socio-occupational functioning (indexed by the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale) in an observational cohort presenting to early intervention mental health services. A clinical proforma collated demographic, clinical, and socio-occupational information for up to 60-months from p

SUBMITTER: Crouse JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6336340 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature