Table 2.
Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Frequency of Substance Use by Prenatally Cocaine-Exposed (PCE) and Noncocaine-Exposed (NCE) Adolescents
| PCE (n = 42) Mean (SD) |
NCE (n = 21) Mean (SD) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys (n = 23) | Girls (n = 19) | Boys (n = 14) | Girls (n = 7) | |
| Age | 15.00 (1.13) | 14.37 (.68) | 14.64 (.63) | 14.43 (.54) |
| Race/Ethnicity, n (%) | ||||
| African American | 20 (87.0) | 18 (94.7) | 7 (50.0) | 4 (57.2) |
| Biracial | 1 (4.3) | 0 | 4 (8.0) | 1 (14.3) |
| Caucasian | 1 (4.3) | 0 | 2 (4.0) | 0 |
| Hispanic | 0 | 1 (5.3) | 1 (2.0) | 2 (28.6) |
| Native American | 1 (4.3) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Substance Use Initiationa | ||||
| Substance use lifetime, n (%) | 14 (60.9) | 9 (47.4) | 4 (28.6) | 2 (28.6) |
| Substance use past 30 days, n (%) | 7 (31.8) | 3 (15.8) | 2 (14.3) | 2 (28.6) |
| Mean Days Used in Past 30 Days (SD)/n | ||||
| Alcohol | 3.00 (2.65) | 2.50 (2.12) | 4.00 (1.41) | 1.00 (.00) |
| n = 3 | n = 2 | n = 2 | n = 2 | |
| Tobacco | 5.00 (0.00) | — | 4.00 (—) | — |
| n = 2 | n = 1 | |||
| Marijuana | 2.33 (1.15) | 1.00 (—) | 4.00 (—) | 2.00 (—) |
| n = 3 | n = 1 | n = 1 | n = 1 | |
| Childhood Trauma Scale Total Score, Mean (SD) | 36.24 (9.42) | 37.54 (10.86) | 35.33 (10.25) | 30.75 (4.65) |
| n = 17 | n = 13 | n = 9 | n = 4 | |
Number of youth using in lifetime and in past 30 days based on combination of urine and self-report on Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Mean days used in past 30 days based on report on Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
a
One child (a PCE boy) was missing substance use information.