评估LGBT+与非LGBT+成年人之间与年龄有关的大麻相关问题的差异
Cara A Struble1, Jacob T Borodovsky1, Mohammad I Habib1
1Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Williamson Translational Research Building, Third Floor HB 7261, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA.
Addictive behaviors
|September 25, 2023
概括
在LGBT+成年人中,大麻问题较高,尤其是年轻人. 在LGBT+大麻使用者中,使用更多或尽管有健康问题等特定标准更为常见,这凸显了对寿命研究的需求.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 大麻研究 大麻研究
背景情况:
- 与非LGBT+个人相比,LGBT+成年人报告的与大麻相关的问题,包括大麻使用障碍 (CUD) 的比率更高.
- 现有的研究缺乏对LGBT+人口中成年人寿命中的大麻问题的年龄相关差异的检查.
- 导致LGBT+成年人中患病率上升的具体大麻使用障碍 (CUD) 标准仍未确定.
研究的目的:
- 调查LGBT+身份和年龄之间的关联,并认可大麻使用障碍 (CUD) 标准.
- 确定在LGBT+常规大麻消费者中更为普遍的特定CUD标准.
- 探索LGBT+和非LGBT+人口中的大麻问题和相关因素的年龄相关差异.
主要方法:
- 在美国,一项在线调查对4334名年龄在18-64岁的成年人 (25.1%的LGBT+) 进行了调查.
- 参与者报告了他们的大麻使用行为,并完成了大麻使用障碍 (CUD) 诊断标准的评估.
- 统计分析包括双变量对比和调整后勤回归模型来检查身份和年龄的影响.
主要成果:
- 在LGBT+受访者中,对CUD标准的支持显著增加,特别是在年轻的年龄段.
- 经过调整后,LGBT+身份仍然与使用大量大麻 (adjOR=2.10) 和使用大麻尽管有健康问题 (adjOR=2.51) 相联系.
- 结果的差异在35岁以下的LGBT+成年人中更为明显,没有发现显著的年龄*LGBT+身份互动.
结论:
- 年轻的LGBT+成年人可能比他们的非LGBT+同龄人更有可能支持与大麻有关的特定问题.
- 调查结果强调,需要对LGBT+社区的健康结果,社会人口统计和大麻使用特征进行终身研究.
- 该研究确定了导致年轻LGBT+大麻消费者问题增加的关键CUD标准.
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