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Newest firstPurposeResearch demonstrates a strong socioeconomic gradient in health and well-being. However, many studies rely on unidimensional measures of socioeconomic status (SES) (e.g. educational qualifications, household income), and there is often a more limited consideration of how facets of SES combine to impact well-being. This paper develops a multidimensional measure of SES, drawing on family and school-level fact…
Open article record in new tab ↗OBJECTIVES: To examine whether young peoples' risk of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use is associated with school substance-misuse policy. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of secondary school students combined with a School Environment Questionnaire and independently coded school substance-misuse policies (2015/6). SETTING: 66 secondary schools in Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Students aged 1…
Open article record in new tab ↗OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence and frequency of electronic (e)-cigarette use among young people in Wales, associations with socio-demographic characteristics, smoking and other substances and the sequencing of e-cigarette and tobacco use. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of school students in Wales undertaken in 2015. SETTING: 87 secondary schools in Wales. PARTICIPANTS: Students aged 11-16 (n=32 479). RESU…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectivesTo examine the prevalence of electronic(e)-cigarette use, prevalence of e-cigarette and tobacco use by age, and associations of e-cigarette use with sociodemographic characteristics, tobacco and cannabis use among young people in Wales.DesignData from two nationally-representative cross-sectional surveys undertaken in 2013–2014. Logistic regression analyses, adjusting for school-level clustering, examine…
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