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Download full textPatrick, Megan E.; Schulenberg, John E.; Miech, Richard A.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G. – Institute for Social Research, 2022
This volume presents new 2021 findings from the U.S. national Monitoring the Future follow-up (panel) study concerning substance use among the nation's college students and adults from ages 19 through 60. We report 2021 prevalence estimates on numerous illicit and licit substances, examine how substance use differs across this age span, and show…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, College Students, Adults, Incidence
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Direct linkRossheim, Matthew E.; Zhao, Xiaoquan; Soule, Eric K.; Thombs, Dennis L.; Suzuki, Sumihiro; Ahmad, Asra; Barnett, Tracey E. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This study is the first to examine the influence of e-cigarette emission phrasing on perceived harm of secondhand exposure, and whether harm perception was associated with support for a tobacco-free campus policy. Participants: In the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters, 52 sections of a college English course (N = 791 students) were…
Descriptors: Smoking, Campuses, Health Behavior, School Policy
Watt, Toni; Kim, Seoyoun; Ceballos, Natalie; Norton, Christine – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This study investigates the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental health among a sample of college students. It also explores whether health behaviors and social support may help to explain the link between ACEs and mental health. Participants: Participants were students at a large public university in the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Experience, Mental Health, College Students
Casey, Christine G., Ed. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" ("MMWR") series of publications is published by the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Articles included in this supplement are: (1) Overview and Methodology of the Adolescent Behaviors and…
Descriptors: Risk, Health Behavior, Smoking, High School Students
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Miech, Richard A.; Patrick, Megan E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Bachman, Jerald G. – Institute for Social Research, 2023
Monitoring the Future (MTF) has become one of the nation's most relied upon scientific sources of valid information on trends in use of licit and illicit psychoactive drugs by U.S. adolescents, college students, young adults, and adults up to age 60. During the last four decades, the study has tracked and reported on the use of an ever-growing…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, COVID-19, Pandemics
Barbero, Colleen; Vagi, Kevin J.; Clayton, Heather; Holland, Kristin; Hertz, Marci; Krause, Kathleen H.; Brittingham, Rochelle; Bunge, Stephanie; Saka, Susan M.; Marchessault, Nadine; Hynes, Nikardi; Green, Dan; Spell, Les; Monteiro, Karine; Murray, Kristen; Reilly-Chammat, Rosemary; Tignor, Lisha; Mercado, Melissa C. – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Research shows associations between bullying victimization and substance use for teens. However, more research about this relationship for younger adolescents and across race/ethnicity is needed. METHODS: Prevalence and pooled logistic regression analyses of 2019 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 13 states (N = 74,059…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Substance Abuse, National Surveys
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2024
Over the past 20 years, substance use (SU) among adolescents has decreased to the lowest levels in decades. While there has been a decline, these public health successes have not been shared equally. Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist, with Black and Latinx adolescents, as well as adolescents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Early Intervention, Substance Abuse, Outcomes of Treatment
Dilmaghani, Maryam – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on education-smoking gradient remain unclear. The present paper compares the education-smoking gradient among the Generation X and the millennials, who grew up with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Incidence, Public Policy, Public Health
Wray, Ricardo J.; Hansen, Natasha; Ding, Dong; Masters, Joan – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: In 2016 a private Missouri university implemented a campus-wide tobacco-free policy to change social norms and prevent tobacco use among students, staff and faculty. This study assesses impact on tobacco and policy-related perceptions and behaviors. Methods: Before the policy went into effect and again one year later, all university…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Private Colleges, School Policy
Jun, Jungmi; Kim, Joonkyung – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objectives: We examine colleges' current practices for communicating about e-cigarettes in terms of risk, campus policy, and cessation resources based on the American College Health Association (ACHA)'s and other tobacco-free campus policy guidelines. Methods: Websites of 581 universities prohibiting e-cigarette use on campus were analyzed. The…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Smoking, Information Dissemination, Risk
Riley, Kristen E.; Tigershtrom, Ashley; Park, Crystal L.; Lauranceau, Jean-Philippe – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: Few studies have examined relations between college sporting events and maladaptive health behaviors among non-athlete college students. Participants: 97 college students. Methods: Completed nightly surveys (alcohol, eating, physical activity, sexual risk taking, smoking) for 11 days around a National Championship game. Results:…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Behavior, Predictor Variables, College Athletics
Camenga, Deepa R.; Bernstein, Steven L.; Dziura, James; Fiellin, Lynn; Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: To test the feasibility of a university health center-delivered smoking cessation intervention that adds a 6-week course of text messaging to brief advice and nicotine patch therapy. Participants: Young adult cigarette smokers (n = 40) from 2 universities from January 2015 to May 2016. Methods: Randomized controlled trial comparing…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Intervention, Drug Therapy
Jonita R. Shabazz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically, students of color have experienced an increased risk for exclusionary discipline outcomes (Children's Defense Fund, 1975). Discipline disproportionality continues to be a major problem in our schools today (McIntosh et al., 2018). The focus of most of the research has been on African American males; however, African American females…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Discipline, African American Students, Females
Sa, Jaesin; Samuel, Tonya; Chaput, Jean-Philippe; Chung, Joon; Grigsby-Toussaint, Diana S.; Lee, Jounghee – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: To examine sex and racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and the association between sleep quality and body weight status among US college students. Participants: A nationally representative sample (N = 324,767) of college students from 2011 to 2015. Methods: A secondary data analysis of cross-sectional data. Results: Women showed…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Sleep
Higgins, Simon; Smith, Alexandra N.; Williams, Ewan R.; Das, Bhibha M.; Fedewa, Michael V.; Evans, Ellen M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To identify the sex-specific prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk factors and their physiological, psychosocial, and behavioral correlates in a college-aged population. Participants and methods: Cross-sectional assessment of MetS risk factors and potential correlates occurred in 379 first-year students (aged 18.34 ± 0.49 years,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Freshmen, Metabolism, Physiology
