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The misuse of substances by adolescents is a serious public health concern in the United States, and the three most used substances by adolescents are alcohol, cannabis, and electronic cigarettes. In accordance with the Social Development Model, a better understanding of the risk and protective factors across these three substances can assist in predicting potential substance use as well as strategies for prevention. The purpose of the current study is to examine the similar or differential influence that a specific set of risk and protective factors (i.e., favorable attitudes toward substance use, perceived risk of harm, peer substance use, interaction with prosocial peers, parental favorable attitudes toward substance use, family management, perceived availability substances, and rewards for prosocial involvement) have on past 30-day alcohol, cannabis, and e-cigarette use by adolescents. The present study is based on a secondary data analysis of the 2019 Prevention Needs Assessment Survey, which is administered every two years in the State of Utah to a large sample of students in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 grades. A subsample of students (n = 44,728) was included in the present analysis. Logistic regression was used to examine the predictive relation for the set of four risk and four protective factors on past 30-day use of alcohol, cannabis, and e-cigarette use. In general, the results indicated that endorsement of the four risk factors predicted increases in the use of each substance whereas endorsement of the four protective factors predicted decreases in use. Implications of these findings suggest that there may be more similarities in risk and protective factors across alcohol, cannabis, and electronic cigarettes than between them. In addition, this study adds to the budding literature on the risk and protective factors associated with adolescent e-cigarette use.
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Burrow-Sánchez, J.J., R. Ratcliff, B. The Influence of Risk and Protective Factors on Adolescent Alcohol, Cannabis, and Electronic Cigarette Use. J of Prevention 43, 801–821 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-022-00700-4
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