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Adeline Nyamathi1, Angela Hudson, Barbara Greengold
1International Research & Scholarly Activities, UCLA, School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA, USA. anyamath@sonnet.ucla.edu
Problem:
this cross-sectional study identified a number of factors that were correlated with drug-use severity among homeless youth.
Methods:
to examine a commonly used measure of substance-use severity, the TCU Drug Screen II, in a convenience sample of 156 homeless youth, ages 15-25 from a drop-in site in Santa Monica, California.
Findings:
higher drug-use severity scores were independently related to low levels of perceived health and maladaptive coping strategies.
Conclusions:
the findings from this study are particularly relevant in that they support previous results showing that psychosocial variables are related to substance use behavior among young populations.
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