Concern for Police Brutality, Societal Discrimination, and School Shootings and Subsequent Cigarette and Cannabis Use in Los Angeles County Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Youth: a Longitudinal Study.

Autor: Hacker KJ; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Division of Intramural Research, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA. kiana.hacker@nih.gov., Chen-Sankey J; Center for Tobacco Studies, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark, USA., Leventhal AM; Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.; Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA., Choi K; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Division of Intramural Research, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities [J Racial Ethn Health Disparities] 2024 Dec; Vol. 11 (6), pp. 3336-3345. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 19.
DOI: 10.1007/s40615-023-01787-z
Abstrakt: Objective: Examine if concerns for police brutality, societal discrimination, and school shootings relate to subsequent cigarette and cannabis use among Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) youth. Hispanic youth may be particularly vulnerable to such concern.
Methods: Data are from the University of Southern California's Happiness and Health Survey, a prospective cohort study, which followed Hispanic (N = 1007) and NHW (N = 251) students from ten inner-city and suburban high schools in Los Angeles County, starting from 2013 until 2019. Participants reported concern, worry, and stress levels regarding police brutality, societal discrimination, and school shootings. Four categories were created to indicate levels of each concern variable over time (consistently low, decreased, increased, and consistently high). Associations with past-30-day cannabis, blunt, THC-oil, and cigarette use in 2019 were assessed. Separate models for each racial/ethnic category were used.
Results: Among Hispanic participants, reporting consistently high concern about police brutality (vs. consistently low concern) was associated with higher odds to subsequently smoke cannabis (aOR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.18-2.40), smoke blunts (aOR = 1.63, 95% CI = 1.11-2.39), and vape THC-oil (aOR = 1.67, 95% CI = 1.14-2.44). Hispanic participants who reported consistently high concern for societal discrimination also had higher odds (vs. consistently low concern) to subsequently smoke blunts (aOR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.04-2.29) and vape THC-oil (aOR = 1.65, 95% CI = 1.12-2.43). Among NHW participants, increasing concern over school shootings (vs. consistently low concern) was associated with higher odds to subsequently smoke cannabis (aOR = 2.98, 95% CI = 1.08-7.70).
Conclusions: Concerns for police brutality, societal discrimination, and school shootings were associated with cannabis use especially among Hispanic participants. Providing Hispanic youth with healthy coping strategies may reduce cannabis use.
Competing Interests: Declarations Ethics Approval The current study was approved by the institutional review board of the University of Southern California, which follows Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guidelines for cross-sectional studies in addition to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) reporting guidelines for surveys. Consent to Participate Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Competing Interests The authors declare no competing interests. Public Health Significance Statement This study indicates that concerns over police brutality and social injustice are increasing marijuana smoking, blunt smoking, and THC-oil vaping among Hispanic adolescents.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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