Risk Perception of Cannabis Use Among a Sample of Thai Cannabis Users

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Population and Social Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI:10.25133/jpssv322024.034

Francois René Lamy, Seung Chun Paek, N. Meemon

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Abstract

Amid the recent cannabis legalization in Thailand, this research captured and analyzed cannabis-related health risk perception among Thai cannabis users. This study used a cross-sectional design with 376 Thailand-based cannabis users recruited through an anonymous online survey from July to August 2022 using the SurveyMonkey application. Descriptive analysis and ordinary least squares regression analysis were performed to describe overall respondents’ characteristics and to identify predictors of low cannabis health-risk perception. Out of 376 respondents, 24.2% perceived cannabis as not risky for health, 46% considered cannabis as low risk, 26.6% as moderate risk, 2.7% as high risk, and 0.5% as most risky. Perceived risk of using cannabis was lower among respondents who had a higher perceived benefit of using cannabis (β = -0.133), a lower education level (β = -0.342), were full-time employed (β = -0.271,) and used cannabis more than twenty days in the past month compared to their counterparts (β = -0.373). Our results suggest that using cannabis in any form and frequency is perceived as a no to low health risk consumption by Thai cannabis users, calling for additional prevention and cannabis health literacy efforts.

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泰国大麻使用者对吸食大麻风险的认识

在泰国最近大麻合法化之际，本研究收集并分析了泰国大麻使用者对大麻相关健康风险的认知。本研究采用横断面设计，在 2022 年 7 月至 8 月期间使用 SurveyMonkey 应用程序通过匿名在线调查招募了 376 名泰国大麻使用者。研究采用了描述性分析和普通最小二乘法回归分析来描述受访者的总体特征，并确定低大麻健康风险认知的预测因素。在 376 名受访者中，24.2% 的人认为大麻对健康没有风险，46% 的人认为大麻风险低，26.6% 的人认为风险中等，2.7% 的人认为风险高，0.5% 的人认为风险最高。与同类受访者相比，认为吸食大麻的好处较多（β = -0.133）、受教育程度较低（β = -0.342）、从事全职工作（β = -0.271）以及过去一个月吸食大麻超过 20 天的受访者认为吸食大麻的风险较低（β = -0.373）。我们的研究结果表明，泰国大麻使用者认为以任何形式和频率使用大麻都是无健康风险到低健康风险的消费，因此需要开展更多的预防和大麻健康知识普及工作。

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Journal of Population and Social Studies Social Sciences-Anthropology

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期刊介绍： Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS) is an open access peer-reviewed journal that is published by the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS) has ceased its hard copy publication in 2013, became an online only journal since 2014 and currently publishes 4 issues per year. Yet, Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS) continues to be a free* of charge journal for publication. Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS) welcomes contributions from the fields of demography, population studies and other related disciplines including health sciences, sociology, anthropology, population economics, population geography, human ecology, political science, statistics, and methodological issues. The subjects of articles range from population and family changes, population ageing, sexuality, gender, reproductive health, population and environment, population and health, migration, urbanization and Labour, determinants and consequences of population changes to social and behavioral aspects of population. Our aim is to provide a platform for the researchers, academicians, professional, practitioners and graduate students from all around the world to share knowledge on the empirical and theoretical research papers, case studies, literature reviews and book reviews that are of interest to the academic community, policy-makers and practitioners.