Daily Associations Between Cannabis Motives and Consumption in Emerging Adults

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• Alternative Title:
  Drug Alcohol Depend
• Personal Author:
  Bonar, Erin E. ; Goldstick, Jason E. ; Collins, R. Lorraine ; Cranford, James A. ; Cunningham, Rebecca M. ; Chermack, Stephen T. ; Blow, Frederic C. ; Walton, Maureen A.
• Description:
  Background ; Increasing rates of cannabis use among emerging adults is a growing public health problem. Intensive longitudinal data can provide information on proximal motives for cannabis use, which can inform interventions to reduce use among emerging adults. ; Method ; As part of a larger longitudinal study, patients aged 18–25 years (N=95) recruited from an urban Emergency Department completed daily text message assessments of risk behaviors for 28 days, including daily cannabis quantity and motives. Using a mixed effects linear regression model, we examined the relationships between daily quantity of cannabis consumed and motives (i.e., enhancement, social, conformity, coping, and expansion). ; Results ; Participants were, on average, 22.0 years old (SD=2.2); 48.4% were male, 45.3% were African American, and 56.8% received public assistance. Results from the multi-level analysis (clustering day within individual), controlling for gender, race, and receipt of public assistance, indicated daily use of cannabis use for enhancement (β=.27), coping (β=.15), and/or social motives (β=.34) was significantly associated with higher quantities of daily cannabis use; whereas expansion and conformity motives were not. ; Conclusions ; Daily data show that emerging adults who use cannabis for enhancement, social, and coping motives reported using greater quantities of cannabis. Future research should examine more comprehensive cannabis motives (e.g., boredom, social anxiety, sleep) and test tailored interventions focusing on alternative cognitive/behavioral strategies to address cannabis motives.
• Subjects:
  • Article
  • cannabis motives
  • text messaging
  • cannabis use
  • emerging adults
  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Cannabis
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• Source:
  Drug Alcohol Depend. 178:136-142
• Pubmed ID:
  28647681
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5548614
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K23 DA036008/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R03 DA039003/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R49 CE002099/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; T32 AA007477/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  178
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49914/cdc_49914_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 486.35 KB]
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  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bc51c8cffac2524720c7360ccc970fd9907a4d907ffe55b478366df2ecf6c088