Public and private religious involvement and initiation of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use in Black and White adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This longitudinal study aimed to identify variation by race in the associations between religious involvement and initiation of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, including distinctions by substance or type of religious involvement, in Black and White adolescent girls.

Methods

Data were drawn from interviews conducted at ages 11 through 17 with 2172 Pittsburgh Girls Study participants (56.8% Black; 43.2% White). Two indicators of public religious involvement, religious service attendance and participation in other religious activities, and two indicators of private religious involvement, prayer, and importance of religion were queried. A series of Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were conducted to identify independent effects of religious involvement

SUBMITTER: Sartor CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7383957 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature