School Disrepair and Substance Use among Regular and Alternative High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Grana, Rachel A.; Black, David; Sun, Ping; Rohrbach, Louise A.; Gunning, Melissa; Sussman, Steven
Titel	School Disrepair and Substance Use among Regular and Alternative High School Students
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 80 (2010) 8, S.387-393 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
DOI	10.1111/j.1746-1561.2010.00518.x
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Substance Abuse; High School Students; Smoking; Prevention; Health Behavior; Physical Environment; Educational Environment; Educational Facilities; Individual Development; Adolescents; Nontraditional Education; Surveys; Correlation; Marijuana; Cocaine; Narcotics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Rauchen; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Natürliche Umwelt; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungsstätte; Individuelle Entwicklung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Korrelation; Kokain; Narcotic; Betäubungsmittel
Abstract	Background: The physical environment influences adolescent health behavior and personal development. This article examines the relationship between level of school disrepair and substance use among students attending regular high school (RHS) and alternative high school (AHS). Methods: Data were collected from students (N = 7058) participating in 2 randomized controlled trials of a school-based substance abuse prevention program implemented across the United States. Students provided substance use and demographic information on a self-reported survey. Data for the physical disrepair of schools were collected from individual rater observations of each school environment. We hypothesized that school disrepair would be positively associated with substance use controlling for individual characteristics and a socioeconomic status proxy. Multilevel mixed modeling was used to test the hypothesized association and accounted for students nested within schools. Results: Findings indicated that students attending AHS with greater school disrepair were more likely to report the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs (ie, cocaine, heroin). Students attending RHS with greater school disrepair were less likely to report smoking cigarettes. Conclusions: Differences in findings between RHS and AHS students are discussed, and implications for substance use prevention programming are offered. Students attending AHS with greater school disrepair may require more substance abuse prevention programming, particularly to prevent illicit substance use. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10