Substance-related coping behaviours among youth during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

As impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to unfold, research is needed to understand how school-aged youth are coping with COVID-19-related changes and disruptions to daily life. Among a sample of Canadian youth, our objective was to examine the mental health factors associated with using substances to cope with COVID-19-related changes, taking account of expected sex differences.

Methods

We used online data collected from 7150 students in the COMPASS study, during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (May-July 2020) in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, Canada. We specified a sex-stratified, generalized linear mixed model to estimate the likelihood of engagement in substance-related coping behaviours, while testing for the effects of students' mental

SUBMITTER: Romano I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565916 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature