ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2022
The Link Between Depressive Symptoms and Vaping Nicotine in U.S. Adolescents, 2017-2019.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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
15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Treatment of Nicotine Use in Adolescents Under 18 Years of Age: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Guideline
- Unhealthy behaviors associated with mental health disorders: a systematic comparative review of diet quality, sedentary behavior, and cannabis and tobacco use.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Associations between county-level e-cigarette-inclusive Tobacco 21 law population coverage and e-cigarette use behaviors among United States adolescents in Monitoring the Future.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Associations Between County-Level Vape-Free Air Law Coverage and E-Cigarette Use Behaviors Among U.S. Adolescents in Monitoring the Future.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026Article
- Discrimination and Vaping Among Black and Hispanic Young Adults: Depression as Mechanisms of Influence and the Moderating Role of Family-Like Support.Substance use & misuse · 2026Article
- Frequent, dual and nighttime nicotine use among Dutch adolescents: findings from a school-based survey.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Exploring youth vaping in New Zealand intermediate and high schools: a mixed-methods study protocol.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Assessing trends in internalizing symptoms among racialized and minoritized adolescents: results from the Monitoring the Future Study 2005-2020.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Race/ethnic differences in the association of anxiety, depression, and discrimination with subsequent nicotine and cannabis use among young adults: A prospective longitudinal study.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure: doctors' role in the vaping epidemic.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Psychological Distress and Cannabis Vaping Among U.S. Adolescents.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Social, educational, and psychological health correlates of e-cigarette and combustible cigarette use among adolescents in the US from 2015 to 2021.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- The Association Between Nicotine Dependence and Mental Health in the General Population of Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Analytical Study.International journal of general medicine · 2023Article
- Sociodemographic Patterns of Exclusive and Dual Combustible Tobacco and E-Cigarette Use among US Adolescents-A Nationally Representative Study (2017-2020).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
purposeWhile there is a well-established association between depression and cigarette use, the mental health sequelae of vaping nicotine remain unclear. This study examined whether adolescents with depressive symptoms had higher odds of vaping nicotine than others, and how this association differed when examining vaping with cigarette use, vaping without cigarette use, and cigarette use alone.
methodsUsing 2017-2019 Monitoring the Future data, we examined U.S. adolescents in the eighth, 10th and 12th grades surveyed in schools across the contiguous states. Depressive symptoms were measured by using questions around negative affect and hopelessness. The outcome included vaping with cigarette use; vaping without cigarette use; cigarette use alone; and neither. Control covariates included sex, race, highest level of parental education, and average grades.
resultsThe sample included 32,636 adolescents. Depressive symptoms were positively associated with comorbid vaping and cigarette use across all grades (eighth graders: adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 3.52 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.94-6.39]; 10th graders: aOR = 2.26 [95% CI: 1.51-3.38]; 12th graders: aOR = 1.81 [95% CI: 1.05-3.12]); vaping without cigarette use among eighth graders (eighth graders: aOR = 2.01 [95% CI: 1.46-2.77]; 10th graders: aOR = 1.20 [95% CI: .97-1.49]; 12th graders: aOR = 1.20 [95% CI: .84-1.70]); and cigarette use alone among eighth and 10th graders (eighth graders: aOR = 2.91 [95% CI: 1.50-5.62]; 10th graders: aOR = 2.29 [95% CI: 1.35-3.88]; 12th graders: aOR = 1.73 [95% CI: .83-3.61]).
conclusionsEighth grade adolescents with depressive symptoms have increased odds of vaping nicotine with and without cigarette use. As vaping prevalence increases, clinician assessment of adolescent vaping should concomitantly acknowledge potential mental health correlates. Vaping may be a marker for a broader constellation of adolescent health concerns, including mental health.
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.