US-Mexico Border Stress and Daily Substance Use Among Latino Youth: a Cross-Sectional Study

Since 2016, youth rates of overdose have also increased (Roehler et al., 2021). The questions focus on physical and social disorder, including vandalism, neighborhood noise, abandoned buildings, community trust, law enforcement trust, crime, drug use, and neighbor trust. Demographics and study varia...

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Published in:International journal of mental health and addiction 2023-08, Vol.21 (4), p.2442-2449
Main Authors: Brady, Benjamin R., Caldwell, Darcy, Valdez, Elizabeth S., MacPherson, Allison Huff, Bell, Melanie L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Brief Report
Chi-square test
Community and Environmental Psychology
Consent
Cross-sectional studies
Data collection
Drug use
Gender
Health Psychology
Hispanic Americans
Immigration
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Methamphetamine
Narcotics
Neighborhoods
Psychiatry
Psychology
Public Health
Rehabilitation
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Social support
Teenagers
Variables
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Summary:Since 2016, youth rates of overdose have also increased (Roehler et al., 2021). The questions focus on physical and social disorder, including vandalism, neighborhood noise, abandoned buildings, community trust, law enforcement trust, crime, drug use, and neighbor trust. Demographics and study variables by level of substance use in the BASUS study, March 2018 Characteristics All participants N = 443 (100%) Daily use1 N = 41 (9.3%) Non-daily/no use N = 402 (90.7%) Demographics Age mean (SD) 16.3 (1.3) 16.9 (1.2) 16.2 (1.3) Gender Male 118 (42.4) 22 (53.7) 166 (41.3) Female 255 (57.6) 19 (46.3) 236 (58.7) Ethnicity Hispanic 432 (97.5) 41 (100.0) 391 (97.3) Non-Hispanic 11 (2.5) 0 (0.0) 11 (2.7) Residence USA 410 (92.6) 36 (87.8) 374 (93.0) Mexico 33 (7.4) 5 (12.2) 28 (7.0) Family structure Both parents 243 (54.9) 19 (46.3) 224 (55.7) Single parent 143 (32.2) 18 (43.9) 125 (31.1) Other 57 (12.9) 4 (9.8) 53 (13.2) Mother education Less than high school 85 (19.2) 10 (24.4) 75 (18.6) High school 115 (26.0) 7 (17.1) 108 (26.9) Some college 114 (25.7) 12 (29.3) 102 (25.4) College 84 (19.0) 9 (21.9) 75 (18.7) Unknown 45 (10.1) 3 (7.3) 42 (10.4) Socioenvironmental factors Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Border community and immigration stress2 16.9 (4.8) 18.7 (5.8) 16.7 (4.7) Perceived disordered neighborhood stress3 29.7 (6.4) 34.1 (6.2) 29.3 (6.2) Social support4 7.2 (2.5) 7.49 (3.4) 7.2 (2.4) BASUS Border Adolescent Substance User Survey, SD standard deviation 1Daily use is defined as self-reported use on 20–30 days in the past 30-days 2Border community and immigration stress is an aggregated scale with range of 10–50 3Perceived disordered neighborhood stress is an aggregated scale with range of 15–60 4Social support is an aggregated scale with range of 4–20. Higher sum scores indicate lower overall support Analysis Descriptive statistics for demographic and socioenvironmental exposure variables were stratified by substance use frequency (daily use/non-daily use) and tested with t-tests or chi-squared tests as appropriate.
ISSN:1557-1874
1557-1882
DOI:10.1007/s11469-021-00730-9