TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Substance use among adolescents in California: a latent class analysis
JO  - Substance use and misuse
A1  - Gilreath, Tamika D.
A1  - Astor, Ron Avi
A1  - Estrada, Joey N.
A1  - Johnson, Renee M.
A1  - Benbenishty, Rami
A1  - Unger, Jennifer Beth
SP  - 116
EP  - 123
VL  - 49
IS  - 1-2
N2  - Data from the California Healthy Kids Survey of 7th, 9th, and 11th graders were used to identify latent classes/clusters of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (N = 418,702). Analyses revealed four latent classes of substance use, which included nonusers (61.1%), alcohol experimenters (some recent alcohol use; 22.8%), mild polysubstance users (lifetime use of all substances with less than 3 days of recent use; 9.2%), and frequent polysubstance users (used all substances three or more times in the past month; 6.9%). The results revealed that alcohol and marijuana use are salient to California adolescents. This information can be used to target and tailor school-based prevention efforts.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1082-6084
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.824468
ID  - ref1
ER  -