ArticleThe Journal of school health2022
Adolescent Substance Use Prevention: Long-Term Benefits of School Engagement.
Article in The Journal of school health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Chronic Health Conditions and Substance Use Among Canadian Youth: A Nationally Representative Study: Problèmes de santé chroniques et usage de substances chez les jeunes Canadiens : étude représentative à l'échelle nationale.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Resilience as a Protective Factor in Substance Use Prevention: A Narrative Review of Health Promotion Strategies Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Prevalence of substance use disorder in individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: associations with sex and psychiatric comorbidity.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- An examination of substance use trends among adolescents receiving mental health treatment in Ontario.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Unshackling our youth from the chains of substance abuse as disaster risk.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo determine if school engagement is a viable target for early prevention of adolescent substance use, this study investigated whether school engagement in early adolescence (ages 12-14) is a cause of alcohol and cannabis use during middle to late adolescence (ages 15-19).
methodsTo facilitate causal inference, inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs), which are based on estimated probabilities of treatment selection (ie, school engagement), were created based on a robust set of potential confounders. Using the IPTWs, a cumulative link mixed model was fit to examine the impact of school engagement on alcohol and cannabis use among an ethnically diverse sample of adolescents (N = 360).
resultsSchool engagement was associated with a lower level of alcohol and cannabis use from age 15 to 18. School engagement was not associated with change in alcohol and cannabis use over time, suggesting that school engagement emits its effect early in the developmental course of substance use and offers protection throughout adolescence.
conclusionsThis study supports a compensatory role of early school engagement in substance use across middle and late adolescence. School engagement is a malleable factor and thus offers an avenue for prevention efforts.
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