Classification of Students by Race and Hispanic/Latino/a/x Ethnicity Impacts Estimates of the Prevalence of Substance Use

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• Alternative Title:
  J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
• Personal Author:
  Webb, Lindsey ; Goings, Trenette C. ; Tuitt, Nicole R. ; Bear, Ursula Running ; Sanchez, Delida ; Johnson, Renee M.
• Description:
  Multiracial and Hispanic/Latino/a/x youth are rapidly growing populations in the United States. When considered in substance use studies, they are often treated as homogeneous groups despite important demographic and cultural differences. The current study explores how substance use prevalence may differ depending on how precisely race and ethnicity groups are categorized. Data are from the 2018 High School Maryland Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 41,091, 48.4% female). We estimate prevalence of past 30-day substance use (i.e., alcohol, combustible tobacco, e-cigarettes, and marijuana) for all combinations of race and Hispanic/Latino/a/x ethnicity. Substance use prevalence across the specific Multiracial and Hispanic/Latino/a/x categories showed a wider range of estimates than within the traditional CDC racial and ethnic categories. Findings from this study suggest that state- and national-level surveillance of adolescent risk behavior should add further measures of race and ethnic identity to improve researchers' ability to increase precision of substance use prevalence estimates.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Ethnicity Female Hispanic Or Latino Humans Male Maryland Prevalence Racial Groups Students Substance-Related Disorders United States

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• Keywords:
  Adolescence Hispanic And Latino/A/X Multiracial Substance Use Surveillance Data
• Source:
  J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 11(4):2120-2128
• Pubmed ID:
  37341951
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10733541
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 DA051578/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01DA051578/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T32 DA007292/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 5T32DA007292/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP006384/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; U48 DP006384/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U48DP006384/CC/CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b84918c9b1645a281f576476f853009f12a1cf3cd679d52d3c6f62e9453a352efb31b32ffb274693c333b6ef0772b4c6952b669c9cf5b1ce954e0a41bac7d8c5
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