Table 1.
Prevalence of illicit drug use at follow-up by gender and baseline indicators
| Characteristics | Overall (295/3171) |
Boys (195/1627) |
Girls (98/1537) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/N | % | n/N | % | n/N | % | |
| Age | ||||||
| ≤ 12 | 33/836 | 4.0 | 19/418 | 4.6 | 13/415 | 3.1 |
| 13 | 28/967 | 2.9 | 14/481 | 2.9 | 13/483 | 2.7 |
| ≥ 14 | 234/1368 | 17.1 | 162/728 | 22.3 | 72/639 | 11.3 |
| Family composition | ||||||
| Both parents | 216/2510 | 8.6 | 150/1297 | 11.6 | 66/1209 | 5.5 |
| One parent | 38/269 | 14.1 | 22/118 | 18.6 | 16/151 | 10.6 |
| Other | 41/387 | 10.6 | 23/207 | 11.1 | 16/177 | 9.0 |
| Parental cigarette smoking | ||||||
| No | 90/1383 | 6.5 | 60/683 | 8.8 | 30/697 | 4.3 |
| Yes | 200/1755 | 11.4 | 130/920 | 14.1 | 68/831 | 8.2 |
| Perceived parental permissiveness to smoke cigarettes | ||||||
| Would not allow at all | 169/2338 | 7.2 | 106/1184 | 9.0 | 63/1149 | 5.5 |
| Would not allow at home | 56/305 | 18.4 | 39/160 | 24.4 | 16/144 | 11.1 |
| Would allow | 35/160 | 21.9 | 24/93 | 25.8 | 11/67 | 16.4 |
| Do not know | 31/307 | 10.1 | 22/151 | 14.6 | 8/155 | 5.2 |
| Perceived parental permissiveness to use alcohol | ||||||
| Would not allow at all | 114/1862 | 6.1 | 69/914 | 7.6 | 45/945 | 4.8 |
| Would not allow at home | 62/344 | 18.0 | 45/194 | 23.2 | 17/150 | 11.3 |
| Would allow | 59/304 | 19.4 | 41/167 | 24.6 | 16/134 | 11.9 |
| Do not know | 55/590 | 9.3 | 35/309 | 11.3 | 20/280 | 7.1 |
Any use of cannabis, tranquillizers/sedatives (without a doctor’s prescription), LSD or some other hallucinogens, amphetamines, crack, cocaine, relevin (false substance), heroin, ecstasy, GHB, methadone, “magic mushrooms” and ketamine in the past 30 days