Sehun Oh is with The Ohio State University College of Social Work, Columbus. Diana M. DiNitto is with the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin. Daniel A. Powers is with the Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin.
Am J Public Health. 2020 Jun;110(6):900-906. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305631. Epub 2020 Apr 16.
To examine spillover effects of job skills training (vs basic services only [e.g., adult basic education, job readiness training]) on substance misuse among low-income youths with employment barriers. Data came from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, a longitudinal cohort study of youths born between 1980 and 1984 in the United States. Based on respondents' reports of substance misuse (past-month binge drinking and past-year marijuana and other illicit drug use) from 2000 to 2016, we estimated substance misuse trajectories of job skills training (n = 317) and basic services (n = 264) groups. We accounted for potential selection bias by using inverse probability of treatment weighting. Compared with the basic services group, the job skills training group showed notable long-term reductions in its illicit drug misuse trajectory, translating to a 56.9% decrease in prevalence rates from 6.5% in year 0 to 2.8% in year 16. Job skills training can be an important service component for reducing substance misuse and improving employment outcomes among youths with economic disadvantages and employment barriers.
为了考察技能培训（与仅提供基本服务相比[例如成人基础教育、工作准备培训]）对有就业障碍的低收入青年滥用药物的溢出效应。数据来自美国青年纵向调查 1997 年，这是一项对 1980 年至 1984 年期间出生在美国的青年进行的纵向队列研究。根据受访者 2000 年至 2016 年期间报告的药物滥用（过去一个月的狂饮和过去一年的大麻和其他非法药物使用）情况，我们估计了技能培训（n=317）和基本服务（n=264）组的药物滥用轨迹。我们通过使用反处理概率加权来考虑潜在的选择偏差。与基本服务组相比，技能培训组显示出其非法药物滥用轨迹的显著长期减少，从 0 年的 6.5%到 16 年的 2.8%，患病率下降了 56.9%。技能培训可以成为减少经济劣势和有就业障碍的青年滥用药物和改善就业成果的重要服务组成部分。
