Alyssa Bilinski, Andrea Ciaranello, Meagan C Fitzpatrick, John Giardina, Maunank Shah, Joshua A Salomon, Emily A Kendall
SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies to contain school-associated transmission: model-based analysis of impact and cost of diagnostic testing, screening, and surveillance
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
study explored prevalence predictors alcohol cannabis couse among 9263 filipino adolescents using data 2019 global schoolbased student health survey gshs conducted crosssectional secondary analysis gshs targeting adolescents aged 1317 years excluding cases incomplete data alcohol cannabis use analysis employed bivariate chisquare test independence multivariable logistic regression using stata version 18 identify significant predictors couse pvalue threshold set 005 weighted prevalence cousers 42 95 confidence interval ci 34 53 significant predictors included male gender adjusted odds ratio aor 450 95 ci 331 610 p0001 lower academic year specifically grade 7 aor 408 95 ci 239 699 p0001 grade 8 aor 220 95 ci 130 372 p0003 poor sleep quality also significant predictor aor 177 95 ci 129 244 p0001 history attempted suicide aor 531 95 ci 400 706 p0001 physical inactivity associated lower odds couse aor 045 95 ci 033 062 p0001 additionally nonattendance physical education classes aor 148 95 ci 106 205 p0021 infrequent unapproved parental checks aor 137 95 ci 104 180 p0024 lower parental awareness freetime activities aor 063 95 ci 045 087 p0005 associated higher odds couse factors significantly linked couse included age group grade 9 always feeling lonely close friends bullied outside school whether parent guardian understood adolescents worries findings highlight critical need comprehensive interventions philippines addressing physical inactivity parental monitoring also focusing gender academic grade participation physical education classes sleep quality suicide attempt history effectively reduce alcohol cannabis couse among adolescents