Is pre-college interpersonal trauma associated with cannabis use?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the prevalence and correlates of lifetime cannabis use (i.e., experimental [use 1-5 times] and non-experimental [use ≥ 6 times]) in relation to interpersonal trauma (IPT) above and beyond relevant covariates.

Participants

A large (n = 9,889) representative sample of college students at an urban university in the southeastern part of the United States.

Methods

Participants were 4 cohorts of first-year college students who completed measures of demographics, cannabis, alcohol, nicotine, and IPT. Associations were estimated using multinomial logistic regressions.

Results

The prevalence of lifetime cannabis use was 28.1% and 17.4% for non-experimental and experimental cannabis use, respectively. IPT was significantly associated with experimenta

SUBMITTER: Hicks TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960473 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature