Impact of Hurricane Rita on Adolescent Substance Use
dc.contributor.author | Rohrbach, Louise A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Grana, Rachel | |
dc.contributor.author | Vernberg, Eric M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sussman, Steve | |
dc.contributor.author | Sun, Ping | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-26T19:57:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-04-26T19:57:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rohrbach, Louise A. et al. “Impact of Hurricane Rita on Adolescent Substance Use.” Psychiatry 72.3 (2009): 222–237. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23826 | |
dc.description.abstract | Little systematic research attention has been devoted to the impact of natural disasters on adolescent substance use. The present study examined relationships among exposure to Hurricane Rita, post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, and changes in adolescent substance use from 13-months pre-disaster to seven- and 19-months post-disaster. Subjects were 280 high school students in southwestern Louisiana who participated in a drug abuse prevention intervention trial prior to the hurricane. Two-thirds of participants were female and 68% were white. Students completed surveys at baseline (13 months pre-hurricane) and two follow-ups (seven-and 19-months post-hurricane). Results indicated a positive bivariate relationship between PTS symptoms, assessed at 7-months post-hurricane, and increases in alcohol (p < .05) and marijuana use (p <.10) from baseline to the 7-month post-hurricane follow-up. When these associations were examined collectively with other hurricane-related predictors in multivariate regression models, PTS symptoms did not predict increases in substance use. However, objective exposure to the hurricane predicted increases in marijuana use and post-hurricane negative life events predicted increases in all three types of substance use (p’s <.10). These findings suggest that increased substance use may be one of the behaviors that adolescents exhibit in reaction to exposure to hurricanes. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.title | Impact of Hurricane Rita on Adolescent Substance Use | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Vernberg, Eric M. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Applied Behavioral Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1521/psyc.2009.72.3.222 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | PMC2761882 | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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