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. 2018 May;5(3):91-99.
doi: 10.14485/HBPR.5.3.9.

Parent Education and Substance Use among Latin-American Early Adolescents

Adriana Pérez  1 , Amira Osman  2 , Lorena Peña  3 , Erika N Abad-Vivero  4 , James W Hardin  5 , James Sargent  6 , James F Thrasher  7 , Raúl Mejía  3
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Parent Education and Substance Use among Latin-American Early Adolescents

Adriana Pérez et al. Health Behav Policy Rev. 2018 May.

Abstract

Objective: To examine the relationship between parent education, at individual- and school-level, and substance use behaviors (smoking, alcohol drinking, binge drinking, and illicit drug use) among young adolescents from Argentina and Mexico.

Methods: A cross-sectional, school-based survey of middle-school early adolescents from Mexico (N=10,123) and Argentina (N=3,172) queried substance use.

Results: After adjusting for age, sex and individual-level parent education, students from Mexican schools with lower parent education had higher likelihood of current smoking and drug use than those from schools with higher parent education. In Argentina, lower parent education at school-level was positively associated with all outcomes.

Conclusion: Disadvantageous contextual school characteristics contributes to substance use among early adolescents in Mexico and Argentina.

Keywords: adolescent; parent education; substance use.

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Conflict of Interest Declaration All authors of this article declare they have no conflicts of interest.

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