TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief report
T2 - Pregnant by age 15 years and substance use initiation among US adolescent girls
AU - Cavazos-Rehg, Patricia A.
AU - Krauss, Melissa J.
AU - Spitznagel, Edward L.
AU - Schootman, Mario
AU - Cottler, Linda B.
AU - Bierut, Laura Jean
N1 - Funding Information:
This publication was made possible by funding from the KL2 RR024994 – ICTS Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program and Grant Number UL1 RR024992 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) , a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH. This publication was also supported in part by an NIH Career Development Award awarded to Dr. Cavazos-Rehg (NIDA, K01DA025733 ). This publication was also supported in part by an NIH Midcareer Investigator Award awarded to Dr. Bierut ( K02 DA021237 ). This publication was also made possible in part by NIDA grant 5 T32 DA07313-09 (Drug Abuse Comorbidity, Prevention & Biostatistics) awarded to Dr. Cottler.
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - We examined substance use onset and associations with pregnancy by age 15 years. Participants were girls ages 15 years or younger (weighted n = 8319) from the 1999-2003 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS). Multivariable logistic regression examined pregnancy as a function of substance use onset (i.e., age 10 years or younger, 11-12, 13-14, and age 15 years) for alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, controlling for race/ethnicity and metropolitan location. Of girls pregnant by age 15 years (3% of the sample, weighted n = 243), 16% had smoked marijuana by age 10 years and over 20% had smoked cigarettes and initiated alcohol use by age 10 years. In the multivariable analysis, marijuana use by age 14 years and/or cigarette smoking by age 12 years clearly distinguished girls who became pregnant by age 15 years and is perhaps due to a common underlying risk factor.
AB - We examined substance use onset and associations with pregnancy by age 15 years. Participants were girls ages 15 years or younger (weighted n = 8319) from the 1999-2003 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS). Multivariable logistic regression examined pregnancy as a function of substance use onset (i.e., age 10 years or younger, 11-12, 13-14, and age 15 years) for alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana, controlling for race/ethnicity and metropolitan location. Of girls pregnant by age 15 years (3% of the sample, weighted n = 243), 16% had smoked marijuana by age 10 years and over 20% had smoked cigarettes and initiated alcohol use by age 10 years. In the multivariable analysis, marijuana use by age 14 years and/or cigarette smoking by age 12 years clearly distinguished girls who became pregnant by age 15 years and is perhaps due to a common underlying risk factor.
KW - Adolescent risk behaviors
KW - Sexual intercourse
KW - Substance use
KW - Teenage pregnancy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84865543780
U2 - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.03.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 22560516
AN - SCOPUS:84865543780
SN - 0140-1971
VL - 35
SP - 1393
EP - 1397
JO - Journal of Adolescence
JF - Journal of Adolescence
IS - 5
ER -