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Contributions of ethnicity to differential item functioning of cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms.

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OBJECTIVE:Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States, and as a result, it is associated with significant public health costs. The present study sought to investigate whether item response theory (IRT) methods could be used to identify meaningful differences in how cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms (determined by criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition) function as indices of the severity of misuse across two ethnic groups: Native Americans and European Americans. METHOD:Participants were drawn from two previously collected samples, a population of Native Americans living on contiguous reservations (n = 406) and the University of California at San Francisco Family Alcoholism Study (n = 728). Cannabis use disorder symptoms were assessed using the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism. RESULTS:Exploratory factor analysis demonstrated that the cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms indexed a single latent trait measuring severity of cannabis use. IRT and multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) analyses suggested meaningful differences in the functioning of these symptoms across ethnic groups. Withdrawal represented a more prevalent and less severe symptom among Native Americans relative to European Americans, whereas each of the cannabis abuse symptoms and a symptom assessing psychological and health problems resulting from cannabis use were less prevalent but more severe in Native Americans. CONCLUSIONS:The findings suggest differences in how cannabis use disorders manifest in these populations and thus have implications for the assessment of these disorders as well as theories attempting to explain the increased rates of substance use diagnoses more generally among Native Americans living on reservations.

journal_name

J Stud Alcohol Drugs

journal_title

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

authors

Gizer IR,Gilder DA,Lau P,Wang T,Wilhelmsen KC,Ehlers CL

doi

10.15288/jsad.2013.74.320

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-03-01 00:00:00

pages

320-8

issue

eissn

1937-1888

issn

1938-4114

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Contributions of ethnicity to differential item functioning of cannabis abuse and dependence symptoms.