A comparison of cut points for measuring risk factors for adolescent substance use and antisocial behaviors in the U.S.and Colombia
| Autor: | María Fernanda Reyes-Rodríguez, Pablo Montero-Zamora, John S. Briney, Francisco Cardozo-Macías, Augusto Pérez-Gómez, Eric C. Brown, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adolescent
Substance-Related Disorders Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Youth antisocial behaviors Communities That Care lcsh:Medicine Colombia youth antisocial behaviors Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Adolescent substance Comunidades Que se Cuidan Humans risk factors 030212 general & internal medicine Risk factor adolescent substance use National data 030505 public health lcsh:R Significant difference Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Antisocial Personality Disorder United States Adolescent substance use Risk factors Adolescent Behavior 0305 other medical science Psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Repositorio U. El Bosque Universidad El Bosque instacron:Universidad El Bosque International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 2 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 470, p 470 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph18020470 |
| Popis: | As the identification and targeting of salient risk factors for adolescent substance use become more widely used globally, an essential question arises as to whether U.S.-based cut points in the distributions of these risk factors that identify &ldquo high&rdquo risk can be used validly in other countries as well. This study examined proportions of youth at &ldquo risk using different empirically derived cut points in the distributions of 18 measured risk factors. Data were obtained from large-scale samples of adolescents in Colombia and the United States. Results indicated that significant (p < 0.05) differences in the proportions of &ldquo risk youth were found in 38.9% of risk factors for 6th graders, 61.1% for 8th graders, and 66.6% for 10th graders. Colombian-based cut points for determining the proportion of Colombian youth at &ldquo risk were preferable to U.S.-based cut points in almost all comparisons that exhibited a significant difference. Our findings suggest that observed differences were related to the type of risk factor (e.g., drug specific vs. non-drug specific). Findings from this study demonstrate the need for collecting large-scale national data on risk factors for adolescent substance use and developing country-specific cut points based on the distributions of these measures to avoid misidentification of youth at &ldquo risk. |
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