Neighborhood Structural Factors and Proximal Risk for Youth Substance Use.

ABSTRACT: This study examined associations of neighborhood structural factors (census-based measures, socioeconomic disadvantage, and residential stability); self-reported measures of general and substance use-specific risk factors across neighborhood, school, peer, and family domains; and sociodemographic factors with substance use among 9th grade students. Data drawn from the Seattle Social Development Project, a theory-driven longitudinal study originating in Seattle, WA, were used to estimate associations between risk factors and past month cigarette smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use, and polysubstance use among students (N = 766). Results of logistic regression models adjusting for neighborhood clustering and including all domains of risk factors simultaneously indicated that neighborhood

SUBMITTER: Cambron C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7166144 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature