酒精,大麻和尼古丁的使用与COVID-19大流行相关的经验有明显的关联:在两个时间点的探索性贝叶斯网络分析
Santiago Papini1, Teresa López-Castro2, Margaret Swarbrick3
1Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA94612, USA.
Drug and alcohol dependence
|June 2, 2023
概括
流行病体验与酒精,大麻和尼古丁使用有关. 这些关联,包括对情感和经济福祉的影响,在COVID-19大流行期间随着时间的推移而保持稳定.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 行为科学 行为科学
背景情况:
- 虽然已知COVID-19物质使用趋势,但大流行体验和物质使用之间的联系需要进一步研究.
- 了解这些关联对于公共卫生干预至关重要.
- 疫情带来了独特的压力因素,影响了心理和身体健康.
研究的目的:
- 调查与流行病相关的经历与酒精,大麻和尼古丁的使用之间的联系.
- 检查这些协会的稳定性随着时间的推移.
- 为了确定与不同物质使用行为相关的特定流行病影响.
主要方法:
- 一个美国社区样本 (N=1123) 在2020年7月和2021年1月完成了在线调查.
- 评估过去一个月的酒精,大麻和尼古丁使用以及使用流行病-流行病影响清单的流行病影响.
- 采用贝叶斯-高斯图形网络来分析物质使用和大流行体验之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 在物质使用和流行病影响之间发现了显著的关联,相关性范围从-0.25到0.23.
- 酒精使用与社会/情感影响正相关,与经济影响负相关.
- 尼古丁使用与经济影响正面相关,与社会影响负面相关;大麻使用与情绪影响正面相关.
- 这些物质使用关联在两个评估期内保持稳定.
结论:
- 酒精,尼古丁和大麻使用与特定的流行病相关经历有明显的关联.
- 这些发现突出了大流行压力因素和物质使用行为之间的复杂相互作用.
- 需要进一步的研究来确定因果关系,因为数据的观察性质.
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