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- Title
Correlates of Ever Having Used Electronic Cigarettes Among Older Adolescent Children of Alcoholic Fathers.
- Authors
Lessard, Jared; Henrie, James; Livingston, Jennifer A.; Leonard, Kenneth E.; Colder, Craig R.; Eiden, Rina D.
- Abstract
Introduction: Few studies have examined predictors of ever having used electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) among older adolescents. This study examined correlates of ever having used e-cigarettes among adolescent children of alcoholic fathers. Methods: Participants were 136 adolescents (50.7% male, 89.4% European American) from an ongoing longitudinal case-control study of children of alcoholic fathers. Adolescents reported on their mother’s and father’s parenting during middle adolescence (MA; M age = 13.8) and completed measures of their own, as well as their peers’, substance use during late adolescence (LA; M age = 17.0). Parents completed measures of their own substance use at the MA assessment. Results: More than one third (36.9%) of the participants reported ever using e-cigarettes. Parental monitoring during MA (odds ratio [OR] = 0.85, p < .05), lifetime use of cigarettes (OR = 3.88, p < .01), alcohol use (OR = 7.72, p < .05), marijuana use (OR = 4.07, p < .01), and peer substance use (OR = 1.34, p < .05) during LA were each uniquely associated with ever having used e-cigarettes. Ever having used e-cigarettes also was associated with more frequent current cigarette use (β = .38, p < .05), alcohol use (β = .30, p < .01), and marijuana use (β = .31, p < .05). Conclusions: Results suggest that ever having used e-cigarettes in LA is a risk marker for substance use. Interventions to promote parental monitoring may be effective in curbing use of e-cigarettes and other substances in LA.
- Subjects
STATISTICAL correlation; ADOLESCENT smoking; CHILDREN of people with alcoholism; ELECTRONIC cigarettes; ALCOHOLIC fathers; SUBSTANCE use of children
- Publication
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 12, p1656
- ISSN
1462-2203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ntr/ntu148