title: Parent-child communication and marijuana initiation: evidence using discrete-time survival analysis.
abstract: This study supplements existing literature on the relationship between parent-child communication and adolescent drug use by exploring whether parental and/or adolescent recall of specific drug-related conversations differentially impact youth's likelihood of initiating marijuana use. Using discrete-time survival analysis, we estimated the hazard of marijuana initiation using a logit model to obtain an estimate of the relative risk of initiation. Our results suggest that parent-child communication about drug use is either not protective (no effect) or - in the case of youth reports of communication - potentially harmful (leading to increased likelihood of marijuana initiation).
authors.affiliation: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. jnonnemaker@rti.org
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Nonnemaker
authors.forename: Olivia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Silber-Ashley
authors.forename: Matthew C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Farrelly
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dench
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D057566:Self Report