Abstract
Lifelong substance use often begins during adolesence. Eighty eight percent of adult daily smokers began before age 18. By 12th grade, about two-thirds of student have tried alcohol; approximately half of 9th through 12th grade students have reported ever having used marijuana; and among 12th graders, approximately 2 in 10 reported using prescription medicine without a prescription. Adolescents reporting lower levels of parental monitoring are more likely to use illicit substance (primarily cannabis use). Poor parental monitoring is associated with many negative youth outcomes, including maladjustment, association with deviant peers, and poor performance in school. The purpose of this research was to determine if parental involvement in student academics, specifically parental checking student homework and parental help with student homework, were significantly associated with substance use based on data from the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The results of this study indicate both parental checking of homework and helping with homework are strongly and significantly associated with a reduction in substance use by adolescents (p = 0.0001).
Highlights
Adolescence is a vulnerable period when people are sensitive to substance use
JPHIP, an open access journal ISSN- 2581-7264 of substance abuse led the authors to ask: “Does Parental monitoring of academics reduce adolescents’ engagement in substance use”
To determine the associations between parental monitoring of academics and adolescents’ engagement in substance use among adolescents’ age 12 to 17 years, a chi-square (χ2) statistic (α=0.05) was used
Summary
Adolescence is a vulnerable period when people are sensitive to substance use. Substance use can have large impacts on health and well-being, causing avoidable illness and death. Substance use affects the growth and brain development of teens, risk factors to the development of adult health problems, such as heart disease and sleep disorders and may act as the driving force to adopt other risky behaviors, such as unprotected sex, violence and dangerous driving. Substance use may cause different kinds of cancers. Liver, and colorectal cancers; moderate to heavy alcohol consumption is associated with oropharyngeal, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers; associations between marijuana use and prostate and cervical cancer have been observed [2]. Monitoring adolescent substance use, is challenging [2].
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