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Article de Périodique
A framework to examine gateway relations in drug use: an application of latent transition analysis (2011)
Auteur(s) :
M. M. MALDONADO-MOLINA ;
S. T. LANZA
Article en page(s) :
901-924
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Thésaurus mots-clés
THEORIE DE L'ESCALADE
;
ADOLESCENT
;
ETUDE LONGITUDINALE
;
ALCOOL
;
TABAC
;
CANNABIS
;
EVALUATION
;
MODELE
Résumé :
A progressive and hierarchical sequence of drug use suggests that a sequence of stages of drug use can describe the order by which adolescents try drugs. We propose an operational definition to test gateway relations by providing a framework with the aim of describing a set of conditions to guide the evaluation of whether a drug serves as a gateway for another drug. We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to demonstrate how using latent transition analysis we can estimate the odds of using a drug at a later time conditional on having used a gateway drug at an earlier time. We provide three empirical demonstrations for testing the gateway relations using a national and longitudinal data of adolescents (e.g., gateway relation between cigarettes and marijuana, alcohol and marijuana, and alcohol and cigarettes).
Affiliation :
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research and the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida
United States / Etats-Unis
United States / Etats-Unis