Longitudinal associations of sleep problems with alcohol and cannabis use from adolescence to emerging adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

This study examined longitudinal associations of sleep problems with alcohol and cannabis use across six annual waves of data from adolescence to emerging adulthood.

Methods

Participants were 3,265 youth from California (ages 16-22 across waves). At each wave, past-month alcohol use and cannabis use, mental health, and several dimensions of sleep health (i.e. social jetlag, bedtimes, time in bed, trouble sleeping) were assessed via questionnaire. Parallel process latent growth models examined the association between sleep and alcohol or cannabis use trajectories and the role of mental health in contributing to such trajectories.

Results

Smaller declines in social jetlag (r = 0.11, p = 0.04), increases in trouble sleeping (r = 0.18, p < 0.01), and late

SUBMITTER: Troxel WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561242 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature