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Table 4 Associations between age at first substance use and having cannabis use disordera among subjects who reported using cannabis in the last year – binary logistic regression (n = 764)

From: Relationships between age at first substance use and persistence of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder

Age at first use

Mean age at first use

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Cannabis use disorder

No cannabis use disorder

OR (95% CI)

P-value

OR (95% CI)

P-value

OR (95% CI)

P-value

All subjects

 Alcohol (n = 750)

15.15 ± 1.7

15.50 ± 1.8

0.89 (0.82, 0.98)

.012

0.89 (0.81, 0.98)

.018

0.95 (0.86, 1.06)

.354

 Tobacco (n = 663)

14.75 ± 2.7

15.45 ± 3.2

0.92 (0.86, 0.97)

.004

0.89 (0.83, 0.95)

<.001

0.94 (0.87, 1.01)

.095

 Cannabis (n = 758)

16.84 ± 3.4

18.10 ± 3.9

0.90 (0.85, 0.94)

<.001

0.91 (0.87, 0.96)

.001

0.96 (0.90, 1.02)

.14

Subjects aged 15–34 years

 Alcohol (n = 579)

15.22 ± 1.7

15.44 ± 1.7

0.92 (0.83, 1.02)

.112

0.92 (0.83, 1.03)

.142

0.99 (0.87, 1.12)

.867

 Tobacco (n = 502)

14.65 ± 2.5

15.64 ± 2.4

0.84 (0.78, 0.91)

<.001

0.82 (0.76, 0.89)

<.001

0.86 (0.78, 0.94)

.001

 Cannabis (n = 584)

16.52 ± 2.4

17.52 ± 2.4

0.84 (0.78, 0.90)

<.001

0.84 (0.78, 0.91)

<.001

0.89 (0.82, 0.98)

.012

  1. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) are shown
  2. Model 1: univariate
  3. Model 2: adjusted for sex and age (continuous)
  4. Model 3: adjusted for sex, age, marital status, region, education, employment, housing tenure, other lifetime drug use, current use of alcohol or tobacco and year of data collection
  5. aAny cannabis abuse or dependence