ABSTRACT
Background: Few studies have focused on early alcohol, tobacco and drug use prior to 18 years of age and their relationship with anxiety; while no study has checked the gender differences of these factors with anxiety.
Methods: This study included 6,057 adults with anxiety in the past year and 71,868 controls from the combined data of 2013 and 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The weighted multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the associations of early alcohol, tobacco and drug use prior to 18 years of age with anxiety. The odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated.
Results: The overall prevalence of anxiety was 6.8% (4.4% and 9.1% for males and females, respectively). Weighted multiple logistic regression showed that cigarettes use, inhalant use, marijuana use and other illicit drugs use revealed significant associations with anxiety (OR = 1.18, 95% CI = 1.04-1.33, OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.10-1.56, OR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.01-1.32, and OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.17-1.48, respectively). Stratified by gender, cigarettes use, inhalant use, marijuana use and other illicit drugs use were associated with anxiety in females only.
Conclusion: Early tobacco and drug use prior to 18 years of age were found to be associated with increased odds of adult anxiety and that such associations differed by gender.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:asrf-1392 |
| Date | 12 April 2019 |
| Creators | Nwabueze, Christian, Gong, Shaoqing, Wang, Nianyang, Xie, Xin, Wang, Kesheng |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Appalachian Student Research Forum |
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