Underage Substance Use

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Journal Articles (168)

The Carrot and the Stick: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influences on Responsible Merchant Practices to Reduce Underage Drinking — Apr 2, 2013

Merchants who hold more pro-enforcement attitudes engage in more responsible beverage service training practices, which in turn is associated with greater enforcement of underage drinking. These attitudes are potential targets of prevention efforts.

A Tutorial on Propensity Score Estimation for Multiple Treatments Using Generalized Boosted Models — Jan 1, 2013

The use of propensity scores to control for pretreatment imbalances on observed variables in non-randomized or observational studies examining the causal effects of treatments or interventions has become widespread over the past decade.

Evaluating the Impact of Getting to Outcomes—Underage Drinking on Prevention Capacity and Alcohol Merchant Attitudes and Selling Behaviors — Jan 1, 2013

Assessed whether providing prevention coalitions with Getting To Outcomes-Underage Drinking (GTO-UD) helped improve implementation of two common EAP strategies, responsible beverage service training (RBS) and compliance checks.

Are Social Network Correlates of Heavy Drinking Similar Among Black Homeless Youth and White Homeless Youth? — Nov 1, 2012

Understanding factors associated with heavy drinking among homeless youth is important for prevention efforts.

Workplace Strategies Are Needed to Protect Youth Across the Globe from Starting to Smoke — Sep 1, 2012

There is a strong association between adolescents' beginning to work and their beginning to smoke. Thus the workplace may be an appropriate venue for antismoking interventions targeting youth.

Assessing Measurement Invariance of Familism and Parental Respect Across Race/Ethnicity in Adolescents — Sep 1, 2012

Familism and parental respect are culturally derived constructs rooted in Hispanic and Asian cultures, respectively.

Racial/ethnic Differences in the Influence of Cultural Values, Alcohol Resistance Self-Efficacy, and Alcohol Expectancies on Risk for Alcohol Initiation — Aug 6, 2012

Cultural values affect the likelihood that adolescents will begin to use alcohol.

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Among Fifth-Graders in Three Cities — Aug 1, 2012

Interventions that address potentially detrimental consequences of low socioeconomic status and adverse school environments may help reduce racial and ethnic differences in child health.

Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jun 1, 2012

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

Assessing Motivational Interviewing Integrity for Group Interventions with Adolescents — May 28, 2012

This study demonstrates that it is possible to determine whether group motivational interviewing (MI) is implemented with integrity in the group setting and that MI in this setting is different from what takes place in usual care.

Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children — Apr 1, 2012

The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.

Scheduling of Newly Emerging Drugs: A Critical Review of Decisions Over 40 Years — Apr 1, 2012

This study seeks to assess more comprehensively the results of decisions on whether and how to 'schedule' (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) newly emerging drugs.

Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? — Mar 1, 2012

The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.

Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter? — Jan 1, 2012

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

Temporal Associations of Popularity and Alcohol Use Among Middle School Students — Jan 1, 2012

The goal of this study is to better understand the longitudinal cross-lagged associations between popularity, assessed through self-rating and peer nominations, and alcohol use among middle school students.

Social Distance and Homophily in Adolescent Smoking Initiation — Jan 1, 2012

The association between peer smoking and adolescent smoking initiation appears to be due to both peer selection and direct influence.

Establishing and Evaluating the Key Functions of an Interactive Systems Framework Using an Assets-Getting to Outcomes Intervention — Jan 1, 2012

Community practitioners can face difficulty in achieving outcomes demonstrated by prevention science.

Neighborhood Characteristics and the Initiation of Marijuana Use and Binge Drinking — Jan 1, 2012

Neighborhood characteristics such as a higher unemployment rate and greater perceptions of safety appear to influence initiation of marijuana use and binge drinking, respectively. The mechanisms appear to be distinct for each substance.

Examining Moderated Effects of Additional Adolescent Substance Use Treatment: Structural Nested Mean Model Estimation Using Inverse-Weighted Regression with Residuals — Jan 1, 2012

This article considers the problem of examining causal effect moderation using observational, longitudinal data in which treatment, candidate moderators, and putative confounders are time-varying.

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