Cannabis Use Among Court-Involved Minority Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Adolescents

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

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Matthew E. Hirschtritt¹  Johanna B. Folk¹  Brandon D. L. Marshall²  Yu Li³  Marina Tolou-Shams¹ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California;Division of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital;Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health

关键词: marijuana;    cannabis;    substance use;    justice involvement;    youth;    sexual minorities;   

DOI  :  10.29158/JAAPL.200104-20

学科分类：儿科学

来源: American Academy of Psychiatry The Law

【 摘 要 】

We examined the effects of family functioning and beliefs regarding peers9 cannabis use among minority ( n = 112) and non-minority ( n = 275) sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), first-time court-involved adolescents. We examined longitudinally the effects of baseline general family functioning and peer cannabis use beliefs on self-reported cannabis use and cannabis-related consequences after 12 months. At baseline, 39.2 percent of adolescents reported using cannabis. Minority SOGI adolescents reported worse family functioning ( p = .017) and higher peer cannabis use beliefs ( p = .047). Higher peer cannabis use beliefs at baseline predicted recent cannabis use at the 12-month assessment for both minority and non-minority SOGI adolescents. Better family functioning predicted a lower likelihood of recent cannabis use at 12 months for non-minority SOGI adolescents, but not for minority SOGI adolescents. Baseline peer cannabis use beliefs and family functioning predicted cannabis-related consequences for both cohorts at 12 months when accounting for intermediate (i.e., four-month and eight-month) data. Among all first-time court-involved adolescents, those who believed greater cannabis use among their peers reported more subsequent cannabis use themselves. Conversely, higher general family functioning may be less of a protective factor for minority SOGI adolescents. These results suggest the utility of feedback interventions to modify peer norm beliefs among first-time court-involved adolescents.

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