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. 2020 Feb 27;5(1):81–88. doi: 10.1089/can.2019.0091

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

Visit T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
n=401 n=391 n=383 n=381 n=387
Age 15.4 (0.7) 16.0 (0.8) 16.4 (0.7) 16.9 (.8) 17.4 (0.8)
Years of education 9.1 (0.8) 9.7 (0.9) 10.1 (0.9) 10.7 (0.9) 11.1 (0.8)
Years of education (mother) 14.2 (2.5)
WRAT-4 reading standard score 108.3 (14.7)
Race/ethnicity (%)
 Hispanic/Latino 89.8
 Caucasian 76.8
 African-American/Black 7.7
 More than one race 12.0
 Other/unknown 3.4
Male (%) 54.1
BMI raw score 23.6 (4.7) 24.5 (4.9) 24.8 (5.5)
Ever used cannabis (%) 78.6 79.5 80.4 80.7 81.9
Ever used alcohol (%) 82.0 86.7 90.2 92.4 94.2
Ever used nicotine (%) 40.6 44.8 52.1 55.4 63.8
Ever used other drugs (%) 36.2 40.4 47.6 49.2 52.6
Frequency of substance use (days in past 6 months)
 Cannabis use, median (IQR) 6.0 [0.0, 30.0] 8.0 [8.0, 49.0] 10.0 [0.0, 73.0] 7.0 [0.0, 84.5] 14.0 [0.0, 105.0]
 Alcohol use, median (IQR) 1.0 [0.0, 5.0] 2.0 [0.0, 8.0] 3.0 [1.0, 9.0] 3.0 [0.0, 11.0] 4 [1.0, 15.0]
 Nicotine use, median (IQR) 0.0 [0.0, 1.0] 0 [0.0, 0.0] 0.0 [0.0, 1.0] 0.0 [0.0, 0.0] 0.0 [0.0, 2.0]
Current cannabis abuse diagnosis (%) 11.0 8.7 15.4 14.2 21.0
Current cannabis dependence diagnosis (%) 2.2 2.8 4.1 3.4 2.3
Current alcohol abuse diagnosis (%) 1.2 2.6 1.8 1.0 2.8
Current alcohol dependence diagnosis (%) 0.0 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.3
Current other drug abuse diagnosis (%) 0.2 0.3 0.8 0.0 1.5
Current other drug dependence diagnosis (%) 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.5 0.3
DASS—depression subscale z-score −0.3 (0.9) −0.4 (0.8) −0.3 (1.0) −0.4 (0.8) −0.3 (0.9)

Note: All values are given as mean and standard deviation unless noted.

BMI, body mass index; IQR, interquartile range; T1, baseline visit; T2, 6-month follow-up visit; T3, 1-year follow-up visit; T4, 18-month follow-up visit; T5, 2-year follow-up visit; WRAT, Wide Range Achievement Test.