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Newest firstIntroduction Adolescent substance use is high in the Caribbean. To inform policy and programming, it is necessary to understand these behaviors at the country level. However, little is known about adolescent substance use in small island states. For the first time, we determined the prevalence and correlates of adolescent substance use in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). Methods We used secondary data from the…
Open article record in new tab ↗(1) Background: Although bullying victimization is a phenomenon that is increasingly being recognized as a public health and mental health concern in many countries, research attention on this aspect of youth violence in low- and middle-income countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is minimal. The current study examined the national prevalence of bullying victimization and its correlates among in-school adolesc…
This study aimed to investigate the correlations between early initiation (<12 years) of smoking cigarettes, alcohol use, and drug use (cannabis) with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in school-aged adolescents in four Pacific Island countries in Oceania. The sample included 6540 adolescents (≤13 to ≥16 years old) from Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Bivariate and multivariable analyses were c…
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