Journal article
Effects of early adolescent alcohol use on mid-adolescent school performance and connection: A longitudinal study of students in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, United States
SA Hemphill, JA Heerde, KE Scholes-Balog, TI Herrenkohl, JW Toumbourou, RF Catalano
Journal of School Health | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1111/josh.12201
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This article examines the effect of early adolescent alcohol use on mid-adolescent school suspension, truancy, commitment, and academic failure in Washington State, United States, and Victoria, Australia. Also of interest was whether associations remain after statistically controlling for other factors known to predict school outcomes. METHODS: State-representative student samples were surveyed in 2002 (grade 7; N=1858) and followed up annually to 2004 (grade 9) in both sites. Students completed a modified version of the Communities That Care survey to report alcohol use, school outcomes, and risk and protective factors. Response rates were above 74% and retention rates exceeded ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful for the financial support provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA012140-05) for IYDS data collection, and the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (R01AA017188-01) and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (project number, 491241) for funding data analysis and paper writing on the IYDS. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, or the National Institutes of Health.