Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dept. of Mental Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Prev Sci. 2019 Feb;20(2):291-299. doi: 10.1007/s11121-019-00991-w.
Innovative analysis of existing social science and behavioral data has the potential to advance our understanding of the epidemiology and etiology of marijuana and other substance use among adolescents and emerging adults, so as to inform future policy, prevention, and intervention efforts. In this commentary, we highlight two commonly used and publicly available datasets, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the Youth Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS), in order to describe their usefulness for evaluation of the effects of changes in marijuana policy on adolescent and emerging adult substance use and marijuana-specific risk factors. We use recent examples of trend and quasi-experimental studies to highlight the unique strengths of each dataset. We also describe their limitations, identify gaps in existing knowledge, and offer recommendations for future research to answer emergent questions about the changing legal, social, and normative context related to marijuana and contribute to prevention efforts aimed at reducing substance use and related health risk behaviors among youth.
对现有社会科学和行为数据进行创新性分析，有可能增进我们对青少年和刚成年人群体中大麻和其他物质使用的流行病学和病因学的理解，从而为未来的政策、预防和干预工作提供信息。在这篇评论中，我们重点介绍了两个常用的、公开可用的数据集，即全国毒品使用和健康调查（NSDUH）和青少年风险行为调查（YRBS），以说明它们在评估大麻政策变化对青少年和刚成年人群体物质使用和大麻特定风险因素的影响方面的有用性。我们使用最近的趋势和准实验研究的例子，突出了每个数据集的独特优势。我们还描述了它们的局限性，确定了现有知识中的空白，并为未来的研究提供了建议，以回答与大麻相关的法律、社会和规范环境不断变化的相关问题，并为旨在减少青少年物质使用和相关健康风险行为的预防工作做出贡献。
