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Sex differences in the relationship between prescription opioid misuse and gun and other weapon-carrying behaviors
- Source :
- Drug and alcohol dependence. 221
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background Previous research shows that adolescent prescription opioid misuse is strongly associated with weapon carrying. Method For this research, data from the nationally representative 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey were analyzed. Average marginal predictions were estimated for gun and weapon carrying as a function of prescription opioid misuse and sex. As per STROBE guidelines, additive interactions with risk differences—in addition to multiplicative interactions with odds ratios and risk ratios—were estimated to investigate sex disparities in the effects of prescription opioid misuse on gun and other weapon-carrying. Results Male US high school students who misused prescription opioids had an especially high prevalence of gun and other weapon carrying. Additive interactions show significantly greater risk differences associated with prescription opioid misuse among male students compared to female students for gun carrying, weapon carrying, and weapon carrying at school. In contrast, multiplicative interactions show lower odds ratios and risk ratios among male students for these same weapon-carrying variables. Discussion Prescription opioid misuse is a significantly greater risk factor for gun and other weapon carrying among male US high school students, which disproportionately increases the risk for violence perpetration, including suicide among these students. Researchers should follow STROBE guidelines and report additive interactions and risk differences separately by sex when investigating risk factors associated with gun and other weapon carrying.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Firearms
Adolescent
education
Violence
Toxicology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk-Taking
Sex Factors
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Epidemiology
medicine
Odds Ratio
Prevalence
Humans
Pharmacology (medical)
030212 general & internal medicine
Medical prescription
Risk factor
Students
Pharmacology
Sex Characteristics
Schools
business.industry
social sciences
Odds ratio
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Opioid-Related Disorders
humanities
Analgesics, Opioid
Psychiatry and Mental health
Logistic Models
Prescription opioid
Adolescent Behavior
Relative risk
population characteristics
Female
Weapons
Weapon carrying
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18790046
- Volume :
- 221
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Drug and alcohol dependence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b361491b5aec44925e57d5d5de584865