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Background and aims
Most studies of the association between child maltreatment and subsequent problem alcohol use are retrospective. We studied the association of prospectively substantiated child maltreatment with problem alcohol use in adulthood.
Design
We used a prospective cohort record linkage correlational design using data from a statutory child protection agency of prospectively substantiated...
Aims
To investigate whether: (1) child maltreatment is associated with life‐time cannabis use, early‐onset cannabis use, daily cannabis use and DSM‐IV cannabis abuse in young adulthood; and (2) behaviour problems, tobacco use and alcohol use at age 14 are associated with cannabis use.
Design
Birth cohort using linked government agency child protection data to define exposure to child maltreatment...
AimsThis study examines whether child maltreatment experience predicts adolescent tobacco and alcohol use.
MethodsThe subjects were participants in the Mater‐University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), a birth cohort of 7223, of whom 5158 (71.4%) were available for analysis at the 14‐year follow‐up. Child protection history was obtained from the state's child protection agency and confidentially linked...
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