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Multicenter Study
. 2002 Jun;30(3):199-216.
doi: 10.1023/a:1015183927979.

Child, parent, and peer predictors of early-onset substance use: a multisite longitudinal study

Julie B Kaplow  1 , Patrick J Curran, Kenneth A Dodge; Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group
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Multicenter Study

Child, parent, and peer predictors of early-onset substance use: a multisite longitudinal study

Julie B Kaplow et al. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2002 Jun.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify kindergarten-age predictors of early-onset substance use from demographic, environmental, parenting, child psychological, behavioral, and social functioning domains. Data from a longitudinal study of 295 children were gathered using multiple-assessment methods and multiple informants in kindergarten and 1st grade. Annual assessments at ages 10, 11, and 12 reflected that 21% of children reported having initiated substance use by age 12. Results from longitudinal logistic regression models indicated that risk factors at kindergarten include being male, having a parent who abused substances, lower levels of parental verbal reasoning, higher levels of overactivity, more thought problems, and more social problem solving skills deficits. Children with no risk factors had less than a 10% chance of initiating substance use by age 12, whereas children with 2 or more risk factors had greater than a 50% chance of initiating substance use. Implications for typology, etiology, and prevention are discussed.

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Early-onset substance use by number of risk factors. N = 254; risk factors include overactivity, thought problems, social problem-solving skills deficits, parental substance abuse, and lack of parental verbal reasoning. No children in the sample had more than 3 risk factors.
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