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Parent-child communication and marijuana initiation: evidence using discrete-time survival analysis
James M Nonnemaker1, Olivia Silber-Ashley, Matthew C Farrelly
1RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. jnonnemaker@rti.org
Abstract:
This study supplements existing literature on the relationship between parent-child communication and adolescent drug use by exploring whether parental and/or adolescent recall of specific drug-related conversations differentially impact youth's likelihood of initiating marijuana use. Using discrete-time survival analysis, we estimated the hazard of marijuana initiation using a logit model to obtain an estimate of the relative risk of initiation. Our results suggest that parent-child communication about drug use is either not protective (no effect) or - in the case of youth reports of communication - potentially harmful (leading to increased likelihood of marijuana initiation).
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