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Record W4310588811 · doi:10.1097/cxa.0000000000000158

Impact Potpourri: A Multimethod Survey Study on Youth Substance Use During COVID-19

2022· article· en· W4310588811 on OpenAlex
Lisa D. Hawke, Natasha Y. Sheikhan, Sarah Oates, Mardi Daley, Mahalia Dixon, Joanna Henderson

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Addiction · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSubstance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThematic analysisSubstance usePsychologyContext (archaeology)PandemicBoredomYoung adultClinical psychologyDevelopmental psychologyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Qualitative researchMedicineSocial psychologyDisease

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Background: Given the important implications of youth substance use, it is essential to document and describe changes in substance use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Methods: This multimethod survey study examines the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on youth substance use among 149 Canadian youth who were using substances at a mid-pandemic period. Participants were 21.9 years of age on average (SD=2.2), including 99 girls/young women, 42 boys/young men, and 8 transgender or nonbinary individuals. The majority were Caucasian and born in Canada. Qualitative and quantitative findings are reported, with thematic analysis combined with descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. Results: Qualitatively, many youth reported increases or shifts in their substance use over the course of the pandemic. Youth reported using substances with limited numbers of peers, with family, or alone. Many reported using substances out of boredom and to cope. While legal substances remained highly accessible, illegal substances were reported to be more difficult to acquire and less trustworthy. Spending had increased. Quantitative findings suggested alcohol use has decreased, but other substance use has remained stable in the sample as a whole, although for each substance, some youth reported increases. Discussion: Despite minimal quantitative change, qualitative findings show that some youth increased their use of some substances during the pandemic, decreased others, changed their motivation to use, and decreased in safety behaviors. Youth-serving organizations should be aware of individual differences, the changing context of substance use, and the potential long-term impacts. Contexte: Compte tenu des implications importantes de la consommation de substances chez les jeunes, il est essentiel d’identifier, documenter et décrire l’évolution de la consommation de substances pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 afin d’élaborer des stratégies de prévention et des traitements efficaces. Méthode: Cette étude d’enquête multiméthodes examine les impacts de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur la consommation de substances chez 149 jeunes canadiens qui consommaient des substances au milieu de la période de la pandémie. Les participants avaient 21,9 ans en moyenne (ET=2,2), dont 99 filles/jeunes femmes, 42 garçons/jeunes hommes et 8 personnes transgenres ou non binaires. La majorité des participants étaient caucasien et née au Canada. Les résultats qualitatifs et quantitatifs sont rapportés avec une analyse thématique combinée à des analyses statistiques descriptives et analogiques. Résultats: Sur le plan qualitatif, de nombreux jeunes qui consommaient des substances pendant la pandémie ont signalé des augmentations ou des changements dans leur consommation de substances au cours de la pandémie. Les jeunes ont déclaré consommer des substances avec un nombre limité de pairs, en famille ou seul. De nombreux jeunes ont déclaré consommer des substances par ennui et pour faire face à la situation. Alors que les substances légales sont restées très accessibles, les substances illicites sont devenues plus difficiles à acquérir et moins dignes de confiance ce qui a entraîné une augmentation des dépenses. Les résultats quantitatifs suggèrent que la consommation d’alcool a diminué pour ces jeunes, mais la consommation d’autres substances est restée stable dans l’ensemble de l'échantillon, bien que pour chaque substance, certains jeunes ont signalé des augmentations. Analyse: Malgré un changement quantitatif minime, les résultats qualitatifs montrent que chez les jeunes qui consommaient des substances au milieu de la période de la pandémie, certains jeunes ont connu une augmentation de la consommation de certaines substances pendant la pandémie, une diminution de leur consommation d’autres substances, des changements dans leur motivation à consommer des substances et une diminution des comportements sécuritaires. Les organisations au service des jeunes doivent être conscientes des différences individuelles, du contexte changeant de la consommation de substances et des impacts potentiels à long terme. Les prestataires de services devraient travailler avec les jeunes de manière centrée sur la personne pour identifier des solutions dans le contexte des expériences vécues en lien avec la COVID-19.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.202
Threshold uncertainty score0.970

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.113
GPT teacher head0.340
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it