Title:
Gender differences in adolescents' progression from onitiation of opioid use to heroin injection
Author:
Gabriela A. Barnett
Thesis Advisor:
Adanna J. Johnson-Evans
Committee Member:
Matthew W. Kirkhart
Committee Member:
Martin F. Sherman
Committee Member:
Amanda M. Thomas
Committee Member:
Marc Fishman
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
2015
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
born digital
Abstract:
The purpose of the current study was to compare male and female adolescents' rates of initiating opioid use in the presence or absence of a romantic partner, whether gender affects the duration from prescription opioid use to injection heroin use, and whether there will be an interaction effect between gender and romantic partner presence at time of opioid initiation on duration. It was hypothesized that female adolescents would be more likely to initiate opioid use in the presence of a romantic partner, that female adolescents would have a shorter duration period, and that female adolescents with a romantic partner presence would have a shorter duration than female adolescents without a romantic partner presence, while there would no romantic partner effect for male adolescents. This study utilized a non-experimental design, and therefore did not manipulate any variables. Seventy-eight participants were recruited from Mountain Manor Treatment Center, Baltimore, MD, inpatient opioid program. Participants completed two retrospective, self-report questionnaires, created for the purposes of the current study, regarding their romantic partner history at the time of initiation of opioids and their history of opioid use, in a 20 minute semi-structured interview. The results of this study reported that gender and romantic partner presence at time of opioid initiation are associated. However, there was no significant association for either gender or the interaction effect between gender and romantic partner presence on duration.
Subject:
Electronic dissertations
Degree:
Master of Science
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
BarnettGA-15
