ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2015
Substance use, age at migration, and length of residence among adult immigrants in the United States.
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- Exploring the Impact of Length of Residence and Food Insecurity on Weight Status Among Canadian Immigrants.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2024Article
- Alcohol use and internal migration in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
- Association between acculturation surrogates and alcohol consumption in rural-to-urban migrants: The PERU MIGRANT study.Journal of migration and health · 2021Article
- Psychological distress by age at migration and duration of residence in Sweden.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Stress and Resilience: Key Correlates of Mental Health and Substance Use in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2019Article
- Reconsidering the Relationship between Age at Migration and Health Behaviors among US Immigrants: The Modifying Role of Continued Cross-border Ties.Advances in medical sociology · 2019Article
- The prevalence of substance use among Russian, Somali and Kurdish migrants in Finland: a population-based study.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Longitudinal Effects of Acculturation on Alcohol Use among Vietnamese and Cambodian Immigrant Women in the USA.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2016Article
- An "immigrant paradox" for adolescent externalizing behavior? Evidence from a national sample.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
- Mortality among US-born and immigrant Hispanics in the US: effects of nativity, duration of residence, and age at immigration.International journal of public health · 2015Article
- Profiles of acculturation among Hispanics in the United States: links with discrimination and substance use.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2015Article
- Substance use disorders among first- and second- generation immigrant adults in the United States: evidence of an immigrant paradox?Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2014Article
- A "refugee paradox" for substance use disorders?Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Article
- The Use of E-Cigarettes Among U.S. Immigrants: The 2014 National Health Interview Survey.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
In this study we scrutinize prevalence of current smoking and binge drinking among adult US immigrants, and examine whether age at migration predicts these two behaviors and moderates the effect of length of residence. Immigrant groups include those from Latin America/Caribbean, East and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/Central Asia, and Middle East/North Africa. Multivariate logistic regressions are estimated using cross-sectional data from the New Immigrant Survey (N = 7,397). Results show that patterns of smoking and binge drinking vary by gender and by region of origins. In addition, arriving at age 0-9 are directly associated with higher odds of binge drinking among adult women. Among adult men, age at migration moderates the association between length of residence and substance use. Specifically, length of residence has more detrimental effects for adolescent immigrants (arriving at age 10-18) on smoking, while its detrimental effects are more pronounced for childhood immigrants (arriving at age 0-9) on binge drinking. We interpret our findings within the critical period model in epidemiological research, concluding that adolescence and childhood are critical life stages that are associated with differential effects of length of residence when looking at smoking and binge drinking among immigrant men.
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