title: Correlates of ever having used electronic cigarettes among older adolescent children of alcoholic fathers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Few studies have examined predictors of ever having used electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) among older adolescents. This study examined correlates of ever having used e-cigarettes among adolescent children of alcoholic fathers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 136 adolescents (50.7% male, 89.4% European American) from an ongoing longitudinal case-control study of children of alcoholic fathers. Adolescents reported on their mother's and father's parenting during middle adolescence (MA; M age = 13.8) and completed measures of their own, as well as their peers', substance use during late adolescence (LA; M age = 17.0). Parents completed measures of their own substance use at the MA assessment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More than one third (36.9%) of the participants reported ever using e-cigarettes. Parental monitoring during MA (odds ratio [OR] = 0.85, p < .05), lifetime use of cigarettes (OR = 3.88, p < .01), alcohol use (OR = 7.72, p < .05), marijuana use (OR = 4.07, p < .01), and peer substance use (OR = 1.34, p < .05) during LA were each uniquely associated with ever having used e-cigarettes. Ever having used e-cigarettes also was associated with more frequent current cigarette use (β = .38, p < .05), alcohol use (β = .30, p < .01), and marijuana use (β = .31, p < .05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results suggest that ever having used e-cigarettes in LA is a risk marker for substance use. Interventions to promote parental monitoring may be effective in curbing use of e-cigarettes and other substances in LA.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; jlessard@ria.buffalo.edu.
authors.forename: Jared
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lessard
authors.affiliation: Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Henrie
authors.affiliation: Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Livingston
authors.affiliation: Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;
authors.forename: Kenneth E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
authors.forename: Craig R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Colder
authors.affiliation: Research Institute on Addictions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY;
authors.forename: Rina D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Eiden
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D066300:Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends