Substance use among adolescents in California: A latent class analysis

Tamika D. Gilreath; Ron A. Astor; Joey N. Estrada; Renee M. Johnson; Rami Benbenishty; Jennifer Beth Unger

doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.824468

Substance use among adolescents in California: A latent class analysis

Tamika D. Gilreath, Ron A. Astor, Joey N. Estrada, Renee M. Johnson, Rami Benbenishty, Jennifer Beth Unger

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	116-123
Number of pages	8
Journal	Substance Use and Misuse
Volume	49
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.824468
State	Published - Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adolescents
Alcohol
Marijuana
Tobacco

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Psychiatry and Mental health

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