TY - JOUR
T1 - Substance use among adolescents in California
T2 - A latent class analysis
AU - Gilreath, Tamika D.
AU - Astor, Ron A.
AU - Estrada, Joey N.
AU - Johnson, Renee M.
AU - Benbenishty, Rami
AU - Unger, Jennifer Beth
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Data from the California Healthy Kids Survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th graders were used to identify latent classes/clusters of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (N = 418,702). Analyses revealed four latent classes of substance use, which included nonusers (61.1%), alcohol experimenters (some recent alcohol use; 22.8%), mild polysubstance users (lifetime use of all substances with less than 3 days of recent use; 9.2%), and frequent polysubstance users (used all substances three or more times in the past month; 6.9%). The results revealed that alcohol and marijuana use are salient to California adolescents. This information can be used to target and tailor school-based prevention efforts.
AB - Data from the California Healthy Kids Survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th graders were used to identify latent classes/clusters of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (N = 418,702). Analyses revealed four latent classes of substance use, which included nonusers (61.1%), alcohol experimenters (some recent alcohol use; 22.8%), mild polysubstance users (lifetime use of all substances with less than 3 days of recent use; 9.2%), and frequent polysubstance users (used all substances three or more times in the past month; 6.9%). The results revealed that alcohol and marijuana use are salient to California adolescents. This information can be used to target and tailor school-based prevention efforts.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Alcohol
KW - Marijuana
KW - Tobacco
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84890329884&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3109/10826084.2013.824468
DO - 10.3109/10826084.2013.824468
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AN - SCOPUS:84890329884
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 49
SP - 116
EP - 123
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 1-2
ER -