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Five-year prospective prediction of marijuana use cessation of youth at continuation high schools
(Prédiction sur cinq ans de l'arrêt de consommation de marijuana chez des jeunes fréquentant des lycées professionnels)
Auteur(s) :
SUSSMAN, S. ;
DENT, C. W.
Année
2004
Page(s) :
1237-1243
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
11
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
CANNABIS
;
FACTEUR PREDICTIF
;
SEVRAGE
;
ADOLESCENT
;
ETUDE PROSPECTIVE
;
ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE
;
DEPENDANCE PSYCHIQUE
;
REPRESENTATION SOCIALE
;
ATTITUDE
;
VIOLENCE
Note générale :
Addictive Behaviors, 2004, 29, (6), 1237-1243
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
This paper reports the prediction of marijuana use cessation among young adults who were regular users 5 years earlier. Social, attitude, intrapersonal, violence-related, drug use, and demographic baseline measures served as predictors of whether or not 339 teenage marijuana users reported having quit use 5 years later. Young adult social role variables were included as additional predictors. Quitting was defined as having not used marijuana in the last 30 days (42% of the sample at follow-up). After controlling for covariation among predictors, in a three-step analysis, only baseline level of marijuana use, male gender, young adult marital status, and friends' marijuana use (marginal) remained statistically direct predictors. Implications of these results include the need to reduce psychological dependence on marijuana and increase social unacceptability of marijuana use across genders to help increase prevalence of quit attempts. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Room 4124, Unit 8, Building A-4, 1000 South Fremont Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803. E-mail : ssussmahsc.usc.edu
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.