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Indicators of Substance Use Among Pregnant Adolescents in the Mississippi Delta
Author(s) -
Sarvela Paul D.,
Ford Tess D.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1992.tb06037.x
Subject(s) - substance use , mississippi delta , environmental health , medicine , substance abuse , mental health , psychology , demography , psychiatry , sociology , geotechnical engineering , engineering
Data were collected from 293 pregnant adolescents living in the southern Illinois section of the Mississippi Delta region concerning their substance use behaviors in 1989 and 1990. Subjects used a variety of drugs in the past and present. For example, 24.4% of the sample reported they presently smoked cigarettes. Alcohol was used by 20.4% in the previous five months, while 5.2% reported marijuana use during the same period. Regression models designed to predict substance use produced adjusted r 2 values of .30 (SE = 1.06) for cigarette use, .38 (SE = .49) for marijuana use, and .43 (SE = .59) for alcohol use. Significant indicators included peer and personal substance use behavior, parental substance use, and having previously received mental health treatment. (J Sch Health. 1992;62(5):175–179)