Back to Search
Start Over
Patterns of Substance Use, Delinquency, and Risk Factors Among Adolescent Inhalant Users.
- Source :
-
Substance Use & Misuse . Jan2015, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p114-122. 9p. 3 Charts, 1 Graph. - Publication Year :
- 2015
-
Abstract
- Background: Despite insidious effects, use of inhalant substances by adolescents remains an understudied phenomenon. Objective: This research was designed to identify patterns of past year substance use and delinquency among adolescent inhalant users. Method: The study used a sample of adolescent inhalant users (ages ranged from 12-17 years, n = 7,476) taken from a pooled sample of the 2002 through 2012 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Three-step latent class analyses were conducted with past year substance use and delinquency behaviors as class indicators. Demographic and social covariates were included in the analyses. Results: Analyses yielded a six-class solution comprised of classes of users characterized by low substance use/low delinquency, high substance use/low delinquency, low substance use/fighting, cigarettes/alcohol/marijuana, high substance use/high delinquency, and cigarettes/alcohol/ marijuana/opioids/moderate delinquency. Conclusions: Findings provide insight into the taxonomy of adolescent inhalant user heterogeneity, and may inform future efforts at detection and prevention of inhalant use by suggesting warning signs of co-occurring externalizing behaviors and possible indications of underlying internalized issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SUBSTANCE abuse risk factors
*INHALANT abuse
*ATTITUDE (Psychology)
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*INTERVIEWING
*JUVENILE delinquency
*PARENTS
*RISK perception
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*SUBSTANCE abuse
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
*STRUCTURAL equation modeling
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ODDS ratio
*ADOLESCENCE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10826084
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99707459
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2014.961611