TY - JOUR
T1 - Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use among first-year U.S. college students
T2 - A time series analysis
AU - Dierker, Lisa
AU - Stolar, Marilyn
AU - Lloyd-Richardson, Elizabeth
AU - Tiffany, Stephen
AU - Flay, Brian
AU - Collins, Linda
AU - Nichter, Mimi
AU - Nichter, Mark
AU - Bailey, Steffani
AU - Clayton, Richard
AU - Abrams, David
AU - Balster, Robert
AU - Dahl, Ronald
AU - Giovino, Gary
AU - Henningfield, Jack
AU - Koob, George
AU - McMahon, Robert
AU - Merikangas, Kathleen
AU - Shiffman, Saul
AU - Prager, Dennis
AU - Segress, Melissa
AU - Agnew, Christopher
AU - Colder, Craig
AU - Donny, Eric
AU - Dorn, Lorah
AU - Eissenberg, Thomas
AU - Flaherty, Brian
AU - Liang, Lan
AU - Maylath, Nancy
AU - Richardson, Elizabeth
AU - Shadel, William
AU - Stroud, Laura
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN). Data analyses were supported by Grant K01 DA15454 (L. Dierker) from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and an Investigator Award from the Patrick & Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation (L. Dierker).
Funding Information:
ogy Center, Professor of Human Development and Fam-ily Studies, and Professor of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University State College, PA. Dr. Collins’ research program concerns design, measurement, and statistical methodology for the behavioral, social and biomedical sciences. She is particularly interested in analysis of lon-gitudinal data, and research design for building and evalu-ating behavioral interventions. Her work on methodology has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Science Foundation. She has published in a broad assortment of methodological and substantive journals. Dr. Collins has been Associate Editor of several journals, and has edited several special issues of journals as well as two books.
Funding Information:
Lisa C. Dierker, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Her work focuses on the application of state-of-the-art quantitative methods in mapping the progression of smoking and other substance use behaviors. The National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation currently fund her program of research.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - The present study sought to evaluate the day-to-day patterns of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use among first-year college students in the United States. Using 210 days of weekly time-line follow-back diary data collected in 2002 to 2003, the authors examined within-person patterns of use. The sample was 48% female and 90% Caucasian. Sixty-eight percent of the participants were permanent residents of Indiana. Univariate time series analysis was employed to evaluate behavioral trends for each substance across the academic year and to determine the predictive value of day-to-day substance use. Some of the most common trends included higher levels of substance use at the beginning or end of the academic year. Use on any given day could be predicted best from the amount of corresponding substance use 1 day prior. Conclusions: Although universal intervention might best be focused in the earliest weeks on campus and at the end of the year when substance use is at its highest, the diversity of substance use trajectories suggests the need for more targeted approaches to intervention. Study limitations are noted.
AB - The present study sought to evaluate the day-to-day patterns of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use among first-year college students in the United States. Using 210 days of weekly time-line follow-back diary data collected in 2002 to 2003, the authors examined within-person patterns of use. The sample was 48% female and 90% Caucasian. Sixty-eight percent of the participants were permanent residents of Indiana. Univariate time series analysis was employed to evaluate behavioral trends for each substance across the academic year and to determine the predictive value of day-to-day substance use. Some of the most common trends included higher levels of substance use at the beginning or end of the academic year. Use on any given day could be predicted best from the amount of corresponding substance use 1 day prior. Conclusions: Although universal intervention might best be focused in the earliest weeks on campus and at the end of the year when substance use is at its highest, the diversity of substance use trajectories suggests the need for more targeted approaches to intervention. Study limitations are noted.
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U2 - 10.1080/10826080701202684
DO - 10.1080/10826080701202684
M3 - Article
C2 - 18393083
AN - SCOPUS:41949113117
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 43
SP - 680
EP - 699
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 5
ER -