Citation

West JH, Blumberg EJ, Kelley NJ, Hill LL, Sipan CL, Schmitz KE, Ryan S, Clapp JD, Hovell MF. J. Immigr. Minor. Health 2010; 12(5): 626-633.

Affiliation

Department of Health Science, Brigham Young University, 229-L Richards Building, Provo, UT 84602, USA. josh.west@byu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10903-009-9303-2

PMID

19936923

PMCID

PMC2904835

Abstract

Despite decades of research surrounding determinants of alcohol and tobacco (A&T) use among adolescents, built environment influences have only recently been explored. This study used ordinal regression on 205 Latino adolescents to explore the influence of the built environment (proximity to A&T retailers) on A&T use, while controlling for recognized social predictors. The sample was 45% foreign-born. A&T use was associated with distance from respondents' home to the nearest A&T retailer (-), acculturation (+), parents' consistent use of contingency management (-), peer use of A&T (+), skipping school (+), attending school in immediate proximity to the US/Mexico border (+), and the interaction between the distance to the nearest retailer and parents' consistent use of contingency management (+). The association between decreasing distance to the nearest A&T retailer and increased A&T use in Latino adolescents reveals an additional risk behavior determinant in the US-Mexico border region.

Language: en