Profiles of Contextual Risk at Birth and Adolescent Substance Use

This study examined whether there are subgroups of families with distinct profiles of prenatal/birth contextual risk, and whether subgroup membership was differentially related to adolescent substance use. Data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 were used. A five-class model provided the mo...

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Published in:Journal of Child and Family Studies
Main Authors: Parra, GR, Smith, GL, Mason, WA, Savolainen, J, Chmelka, MB, Miettunen, J, Jarvelin, M-R, Moilanen, I, Veijola, J
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SPRINGER 2017
Subjects:
Social Sciences
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Family Studies
Psychology
Developmental
Psychiatry
Contextual risk
Adolescent substance use
Birth cohort
Person-centered
Latent class analysis
PERSON-CENTERED APPROACH
FINNISH PERINATAL HEALTH
SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENCES
MULTIPLE RISKS
UNITED-STATES
CHILDHOOD
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
FAMILY
EVENTS
1117 Public Health And Health Services
1701 Psychology
2004 Linguistics
Northern Finland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/60401
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0935-x
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Summary:This study examined whether there are subgroups of families with distinct profiles of prenatal/birth contextual risk, and whether subgroup membership was differentially related to adolescent substance use. Data from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 were used. A five-class model provided the most meaningful solution. Large Family Size (7.72%) and Low Risk (69.69%) groups had the lowest levels of alcohol, cigarette, and illegal drug use. Similar high levels for each of the three substance-related outcomes were found for Parent Substance Misuse (11.20%), Maternal School Dropout (4.66%), and Socioeconomic Disadvantage (6.72%) groups. Maternal smoking and drinking while pregnant and paternal heavy alcohol use were found to be key prenatal risk factors that tended to cluster together and co-occur with other prenatal risk factors differently for different subgroups of youth.

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