ArticleBMC public health2010
Family structure, parent-child conversation time and substance use among Chinese adolescents.
Article in BMC public health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding the influence of parent-child conversations about dangers of drug use on cannabis use among high school students in Barbados.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Factors linked to prognosis in children with provisional tic disorder: a prospective cohort study.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Addictive behavior and mental health of adolescents aged 11-17 years in Bangladesh in 2014: A cross-sectional study.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of children with tic disorders and behavioral problems: A real-world study and development of a prediction model.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Adolescent alcohol use in Estonia compared with Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden: results from cross-sectional surveys, 2003-2015.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Association between parental separation and addictions in adolescents: results of a National Lebanese Study.BMC public health · 2020Article
- The association of family structure with health behavior, mental health, and perceived academic achievement among adolescents: a 2018 Korean nationally representative survey.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Family structure, birth order, and aggressive behaviors among school-aged boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- Binge drinking and associated factors among school students: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province, China.BMJ open · 2018Article
- Article
- Family functioning and parent support trajectories and substance use and misuse among minority urban adolescents: a latent class growth analysis.Substance use & misuse · 2014Article
- Positive youth development, life satisfaction, and problem behaviors of adolescents in intact and non-intact families in Hong Kong.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2013Article
- The effect of family therapy on the changes in the severity of on-line game play and brain activity in adolescents with on-line game addiction.Psychiatry research · 2012Article
- The role of early life experience and species differences in alcohol intake in microtine rodents.PloS one · 2012Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe family plays a vital role in shaping adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.
methodsA total of 32,961 Form 1 to 5 (grade 7-12 in the US) Hong Kong students participated in the Youth Smoking Survey in 2003-4. An anonymous questionnaire was used to obtain information about family structure, daily duration of parent-child conversation, smoking, alcohol drinking and drug use. Logistic regression was used to calculate the adjusted odds ratios (OR) for each substance use by family structure.
resultsAdjusting for sex, age, type of housing, parental smoking and school, adolescents from non-intact families were significantly more likely to be current smokers (OR = 1.62), weekly drinkers (OR = 1.72) and ever drug users (OR = 1.72), with significant linear increases in ORs from maternal, paternal to no-parent families compared with intact families. Furthermore, current smoking (OR = 1.41) and weekly drinking (OR = 1.46) were significantly more common among adolescents from paternal than maternal families. After adjusting for parent-child conversation time, the ORs for non-intact families remained significant compared with intact families, but the paternal-maternal differences were no longer significant.
conclusionsNon-intact families were associated with substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. The apparently stronger associations with substance use in paternal than maternal families were probably mediated by the poorer communication with the father.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.