Journal article
Alcohol and tobacco use among maltreated and non‐maltreated adolescents in a birth cohort
Addiction (Abingdon, England), Vol.109(4), pp.672-680
04/2014
DOI: 10.1111/add.12447
PMCID: PMC4140564
PMID: 24325599
Abstract
Aims
This study examines whether child maltreatment experience predicts adolescent tobacco and alcohol use.
Methods
The subjects were participants in the Mater‐University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), a birth cohort of 7223, of whom 5158 (71.4%) were available for analysis at the 14‐year follow‐up. Child protection history was obtained from the state's child protection agency and confidentially linked. Exposure to reported child maltreatment was the primary predictor variable. The outcome variables were self‐reported smoking and alcohol use. Associations were adjusted for potential confounders.
Results
Reported child maltreatment was associated with early adolescent smoking [odds ratio (OR) 1.76, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.32–2.34] after adjustment for socio‐demographic variables and coexisting alcohol use. Both neglect/emotional abuse (OR 2.03, 95% CI = 1.20–3.42) and neglect/emotional abuse that included physical abuse (OR 1.85, 95% CI = 1.19–2.88) were associated with smoking after full adjustment, including for coexisting alcohol use. After full adjustment, including coexisting smoking, only child neglect/emotional abuse predicted early adolescent alcohol use (OR 1.78, 95% CI = 1.06–2.97), but not the other types of maltreatment.
Conclusions
Reported child maltreatment predicts early adolescent smoking after adjusting for alcohol use, but does not predict alcohol use after adjustment for smoking. Both smoking and alcohol use are predicted by reported child neglect. Early adolescent smoking is also predicted by multi‐type maltreatment that includes physical abuse.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Alcohol and tobacco use among maltreated and non‐maltreated adolescents in a birth cohort
- Creators
- Ryan Mills - Logan HospitalRosa Alati - University of QueenslandLane Strathearn - Baylor College of MedicineJake M Najman - University of Queensland
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Addiction (Abingdon, England), Vol.109(4), pp.672-680
- DOI
- 10.1111/add.12447
- PMID
- 24325599
- PMCID
- PMC4140564
- NLM abbreviation
- Addiction
- ISSN
- 0965-2140
- eISSN
- 1360-0443
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA026437) National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (APP1012485) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD065819)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2014
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; Neuroscience and Pharmacology
- Record Identifier
- 9984040017802771
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