Identifying Problematic Substance Use in a National Sample of Adolescents Using Frequency Questions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Brief substance use screening questions for tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs need further validation in adolescents. In particular, optimal age-specific screening cut-points are not known, and no study has been large enough to evaluate screening questions for noncannabis illicit drug use.

Methods

Adolescent respondents to an annual national household survey were included (2008 to 2014; n = 169,986). Days of tobacco use in the past month, and days of alcohol, cannabis, other illicit drug use in the past year, were assessed as brief screens for tobacco dependence and DSM-IV alcohol (AUD), cannabis (CUD), and other illicit drug use disorders (DUD). Areas under receiver operating characteristics curves (AUCs), sensitivity and specificity were estimated sepa

SUBMITTER: Chavez LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043279 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature