Dataset Information

Adolescents' Substance Use and Physical Activity Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Stay-at-home policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt adolescents' substance use and physical activity.

Objective

To compare adolescents' substance use and physical activity behaviors before and after stay-at-home restrictions.

Design, setting, and participants

Ongoing prospective cohort study of tobacco use behaviors among ninth- and tenth-grade students enrolled at 8 public high schools in Northern California from March 2019 to February 2020 and followed up from September 2019 to September 2020. Race/ethnicity was self-classified from investigator-provided categories and collected owing to racial/ethnic differences in tobacco and substance use.