dc.contributor.author | Pengpid, Supa | |
dc.contributor.author | Peltzer, Karl | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-19T06:41:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-19T06:41:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Pengpid, S. & Peltzer, K. 2019. Early substance use initiation and psychological distress among adolescents in five ASEAN countries: a cross-sectional study. Psychology research and behavior management, 12:1003-1008. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S223624][ | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1179-1578 (Online) | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/33690 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.dovepress.com/getfile.php?fileID=53488 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S223624 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aim: The study aimed to assess the associations between substance use early initiation (<12 years) (smoking cigarettes, alcohol and drug use) with psychological distress among adolescents in five ASEAN countries.
Methods: Cross-sectional data were analysed from 33,184 school adolescents, with a median age of 14 years, from Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand and Timor-Leste that took part in the “Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)” in 2015.
Results: The overall prevalence of pre-adolescent (<12 years) cigarette use was 10.6%, 8.1% pre-adolescent current alcohol use, and 4.2% pre-adolescent drug use initiation. In adjusted multinomial logistic regression analysis, pre-adolescent initiation of cigarette smoking, pre-adolescent initiation of alcohol use, pre-adolescent initiation of drug use and multi-substance pre-adolescent initiation were highly associated with medium (=1) and high (=2–5) psychological distress (of five psychological distress items: no close friends, loneliness, anxiety, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt). Late initiation of cigarette use and late initiation of drug use were not associated with medium and/or high psychological distress.
Conclusion: Early prevention programmes should target concurrent early substance use initiation in order to prevent possible subsequent psychological distress | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Dove Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Early substance use | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychological distress | en_US |
dc.subject | Adolescents | en_US |
dc.subject | ASEAN countries | en_US |
dc.title | Early substance use initiation and psychological distress among adolescents in five ASEAN countries: a cross-sectional study | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.researchID | 32083947 - Pengpid, Supa | |
dc.contributor.researchID | 31568688 - Peltzer, Karl | |