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Substance Abuse Behaviors Among University Freshmen in Iran: A Latent Class Analysis Publisher Pubmed



Kabir K1 ; Bahari A2 ; Hajizadeh M3 ; Allahverdipour H4 ; Tarrahi MJ5 ; Fakhari A4 ; Ansari H6 ; Mohammadpoorasl A4
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  1. 1. School of Medicine, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  3. 3. School of Health Administration, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
  4. 4. Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
  5. 5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Esfahan University of Medical Sciences, Esfahan, Iran
  6. 6. Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

Source: Epidemiology and Health Published:2018


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OBJECTIVES: Substance abuse behaviors among university freshmen in Iran are poorly understood. This study aimed to identify, for the first time, subgroups of university freshmen in Iran on the basis of substance abuse behaviors. Moreover, it examined the effects of socio-demographic characteristics on membership in each specific subgroup. METHODS: Data for the study were collected cross-sectionally in December 2013 and January 2014 from 4 major cities in Iran: Tabriz, Qazvin, Karaj, and Khoramabad. A total of 5,252 first-semester freshmen were randomly selected using a proportional cluster sampling methodology. A survey questionnaire was used to collect data. Latent class analysis (LCA) was performed to identify subgroups of students on the basis of substance abuse behaviors and to examine the effects of students’ socio-demographic characteristics on membership in each specific subgroup. RESULTS: The LCA procedure identified 3 latent classes: the healthy group; the hookah experimenter group; and the unhealthy group. Approximately 82.8, 16.1, and 2.1% of students were classified into the healthy, hookah experimenter, and unhealthy groups, respectively. Older age, being male, and having a family member or a close friend who smoked increased the risk of membership in classes 2 and 3, compared to class 1. CONCLUSIONS: Approximately 2.1% of freshmen exhibited unhealthy substance abuse behaviors. In addition, we found that older age, being male, and having a close friend or family member who smoked may serve as risk factors for substance abuse behaviors. © 2018, Korean Society of Epidemiology.
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