Adriana Pérez1, Amira Osman2, Lorena Peña3, Erika N Abad-Vivero4, James W Hardin5, James Sargent6, James F Thrasher7, Raúl Mejía3. 1. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2. Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. 3. Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4. Departamento de Investigación para el Control del Tabaco, Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México. 5. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. 6. Department of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. 7. Thrasher, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between parent education, at individual- and school-level, and substance use behaviors (smoking, alcohol drinking, binge drinking, and illicit drug use) among young adolescents from Argentina and Mexico. METHODS: A cross-sectional, school-based survey of middle-school early adolescents from Mexico (N=10,123) and Argentina (N=3,172) queried substance use. RESULTS: After adjusting for age, sex and individual-level parent education, students from Mexican schools with lower parent education had higher likelihood of current smoking and drug use than those from schools with higher parent education. In Argentina, lower parent education at school-level was positively associated with all outcomes. CONCLUSION: Disadvantageous contextual school characteristics contributes to substance use among early adolescents in Mexico and Argentina.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between parent education, at individual- and school-level, and substance use behaviors (smoking, alcohol drinking, binge drinking, and illicit drug use) among young adolescents from Argentina and Mexico. METHODS: A cross-sectional, school-based survey of middle-school early adolescents from Mexico (N=10,123) and Argentina (N=3,172) queried substance use. RESULTS: After adjusting for age, sex and individual-level parent education, students from Mexican schools with lower parent education had higher likelihood of current smoking and drug use than those from schools with higher parent education. In Argentina, lower parent education at school-level was positively associated with all outcomes. CONCLUSION: Disadvantageous contextual school characteristics contributes to substance use among early adolescents in Mexico and Argentina.
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adolescent; parent education; substance use
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