Attitudes about cannabis mediate the relationship between cannabis knowledge and use in active adult athletes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about how cannabis knowledge and attitudes impact cannabis use behavior.

Objective

To test the knowledge-attitudes-behavior paradigm in active adult athletes.

Design

The Athlete Pain, Exercise, and Cannabis Experience (PEACE) Survey, a cross-sectional survey study, used social media and email blasts to recruit participants and SurveyGizmo to collect data.

Participants

Self-defined active adult athletes (n = 1161).

Main measures

Knowledge about cannabis was evaluated with four questions. Attitudes toward cannabis was evaluated with 11 questions. The attitudes questions were used in a TwoStep Cluster analysis in SPSS to assign group membership by attitudes. Chi-square was used to determine if there were differences in cluster mem

SUBMITTER: Zeiger JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7819330 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature