TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Associations of childhood maltreatment with subsequent illicit drug use among Chinese adolescents: the moderating role of the child's sex
JO  - Psychiatry research
A1  - Guo, Lan
A1  - Li, Pengsheng
A1  - Pan, Siyuan
A1  - Li, Ming
A1  - Li, Wuquan
A1  - Gao, Xue
A1  - Huang, Guoliang
A1  - Xu, Yan
A1  - Lu, Ciyong
SP  - 361
EP  - 368
VL  - 269
IS  - 
N2  - Adolescence is a critical period for the onset of illicit drug use. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of illicit drug use among Chinese adolescents, to assess the associations between different forms of childhood maltreatment and subsequent illicit drug use and to test whether the child's sex plays a moderating role in the associations. A secondary analysis was made of cross-sectional data collected from 10th to 12th graders from China who were sampled in the 2015 School-based Chinese Adolescents Health Survey. A total of 59,518 questionnaires were included in the final analysis. The prevalence estimates and logistic regression analyses were weighted to account for the complex survey design. If the interaction term (between childhood maltreatment and sex) was significantly associated with illicit drug use, we would perform stratification analyses across sex. Of the total sample, 45.2% were boys, and the mean (SD) age was 17.0 (0.9) years. The results of stratification analyses demonstrated that among boys, physical abuse and sexual abuse were independently associated with an increased risk of use during their lifetime of MDMA, methamphetamine, ketamine, and mephedrone; among girls, only emotional abuse and sexual abuse were associated with MDMA use, methamphetamine use, ketamine use, and mephedrone use.<br><br>Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier B.V.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-1781
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.08.088
ID  - ref1
ER  -