青少年亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民中的大麻使用:对种族子组和性别差异的分析
Ting Luo1, Christopher M Anderson2, Jijiang Wang2
1The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive #0905, La Jolla, California, USA.
Preventive medicine reports
|March 24, 2025
概括
在亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民 (AAPI) 青少年中,大麻的使用有很大差异. 多种族和太平洋岛民小组报告的比率更高,突出了针对性预防策略的必要性.
科学领域:
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 药物使用研究研究 药物使用研究
- 健康差异 在健康上的差异
背景情况:
- 青少年吸食大麻是一个公共卫生问题.
- 亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民 (AAPI) 青年代表着具有潜在不同的物质使用模式的多元种族群体.
- 有限的研究存在于AAPI子组内的大麻使用异质性.
研究的目的:
- 调查各种亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民 (AAPI) 小组中大麻使用的流行程度和异质性.
- 为了比较不同AAPI族群中的大麻使用率,并确定使用量较高的子组.
- 检查大麻使用与AAPI青少年对伤害的看法之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自2019-2020年加州学生烟草调查的数据,其中包括31,071名高中生.
- 按种族/种族分类参与者,以分析过去和当前 (过去30天) 的大麻使用情况.
- 使用描述性统计和多重物流回归来比较子组,控制人口统计 covariates.
主要成果:
- 在AAPI青少年中,目前的整体大麻使用率为11.3%,跨种族子组存在显著的异质性.
- 太平洋岛民 (22.3%) 和柬埔寨人 (17.9%) 的目前大麻使用率最高.
- 多种族的AAPI年轻人报告使用率 (18.5%) 比单族 (7.3%) 或多族 (9.1%) 群体高. 对危害的看法与使用负相关.
结论:
- 在AAPI青少年子组中存在大麻使用的实质性异质性.
- 特定的子组,包括太平洋岛民和柬埔寨人,显示大麻使用率较高.
- 在AAPI青少年中观察到的基于性别的大麻使用趋势发生了转变,需要进一步调查.
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