Jonathan Charest, Michael A Grandner, Amy B Athey, David McDuff, Robert W Turner
{"title":"Substance Use Among Collegiate Athletes Versus Non-athletes.","authors":"Jonathan Charest, Michael A Grandner, Amy B Athey, David McDuff, Robert W Turner","doi":"10.3928/19425864-20210720-01","DOIUrl":"10.3928/19425864-20210720-01","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To supplement the literature on substance misuse by collegiate athletes by expanding the number of substances typically examined and include mental health symptom covariates related to both sleep and substance use.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Substance use was assessed with the following item: \"Within the last 30 days, on how many days did you use?\" with a list of 17 substances. Multinomial logistic regression analysis examined each substance variable as outcome and athlete status as predictor.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings of the fully adjusted model indicated that compared to non-athletes, collegiate athletes were most likely to be past users of alcohol, occasional users of smokeless tobacco, alcohol, and steroids, and frequent users of smokeless tobacco.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The significant differences shown between collegiate athletes and non-athletes may reflect differences in intentions to improve performance, pain management, and stress management. Future studies should seek to elucidate the underreported and self-reported phenomena among this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":92756,"journal":{"name":"Athletic training & sports health care","volume":"28 1","pages":"e443-e452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81161443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Final Goodbye From\u0000 Athletic Training & Sports Health Care","authors":"T. Kaminski","doi":"10.3928/19425864-20211004-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3928/19425864-20211004-01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92756,"journal":{"name":"Athletic training & sports health care","volume":"338 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76307710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}