Oshi Sarah N, Espinoza-Hidrobo Maria I, Pozo-Neira Johanna L, Cabrera-Arias Sandra
Institute of Languages, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Institute of Neurosciences Catholic University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
J Educ Health Promot. 2025 May 30;14:213. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_669_24. eCollection 2025.
Parent-child conversations are very important in influencing adolescent/youth behaviours. Objective of this study was to assess association between parent-child conversations on dangers of drug use and cannabis use among secondary school students in Barbados.
Data from the Barbados National School Survey (NSS) 2013 were analysed. Data were collected from a nationally representative sample of high school students drawn from 2 to 6 forms across public and private secondary schools in Barbados in 2013. Descriptive analysis was done for sociodemographic characteristics and parent-child conversations. Multivariate logistic regression was done to assess the association between parent-child conversations on dangers of drug use and cannabis use among the subjects before and after adjusting for covariates.
Parent-child conversations on dangers of drug use were significantly associated with past year cannabis use both before and after adjusting for covariates (crude odds ratio [COR] = 1.20, 95%CI: 1.04-1.38; adjusted odds ratio [AOR] adjusted odds ratio = 1.35, 95%CI: 1.15-1.58) but with students' past month cannabis use only in the unadjusted logit model. Being 15-16 years, male, enrolled in 4 form, and belonging to widowed family structure was associated with reduced odds of past year and past month cannabis use.
Significant positive association between parent-child conversations on the dangers of drug use with cannabis use is counter-intuitive and suggests that it is not just conversations but the type, content, and quality of conversations that matter in reducing students' inclination to use cannabis.
亲子对话在影响青少年行为方面非常重要。本研究的目的是评估巴巴多斯中学生中关于吸毒危害的亲子对话与大麻使用之间的关联。
对2013年巴巴多斯全国学校调查（NSS）的数据进行了分析。数据收集自2013年从巴巴多斯公立和私立中学2至6年级抽取的具有全国代表性的高中生样本。对社会人口学特征和亲子对话进行了描述性分析。在调整协变量前后，进行多变量逻辑回归以评估关于吸毒危害的亲子对话与受试者中大麻使用之间的关联。
在调整协变量前后，关于吸毒危害的亲子对话均与过去一年的大麻使用显著相关（粗比值比[COR]=1.20，95%置信区间：1.04-1.38；调整后的比值比[AOR]调整后的比值比=1.35，95%置信区间：1.15-1.58），但仅在未调整的逻辑模型中与学生过去一个月的大麻使用相关。年龄在15-16岁、男性、就读于4年级以及属于丧偶家庭结构与过去一年和过去一个月大麻使用几率降低相关。
关于吸毒危害的亲子对话与大麻使用之间存在显著的正相关关系，这与直觉相反，表明在降低学生使用大麻的倾向方面，重要的不仅仅是对话，还有对话的类型、内容和质量。
