Domain

Title

Author/s

Year

Research

Aim

Sample Size

Strength of The Findings as Evidence

Analysis & Results

Practice (1)

Child Neglect and Onset of Substance Use Disorders among Child Welfare-Involved

Adolescents

Lalayants, & Prince (2016)

to clarify the relationship between child abuse and substance dependence versus child neglect and substance dependence

n = 5872

The data set containing many information about social relationship, services needs, mental health and academic achievement for children and their caregivers and other many other important information which enabled researchers to deeply understand the risk factors of SUD.

Analysis revealed four themes:

1) Child and youth maltreatment increase the risk for SUD.

2) Negligence, psychological aggression, physical assault, sexual abuse for children and youth increase the risk for SUD.

3) Painful memories, self blame and depression increase the risk for SUD in order to forget undesirable memories.

Practice (2)

The relationship between parental mental illness and/or substance use disorder on adolescent substance use disorder: Results from a nationally representative survey

Ali, Dean Jr, & Hedden (2016)

The aim of the study is to exam if parents with comorbid mental illness and substance use disorder have effects on their adolescents and be more risky to have SUD

(n = 18,500) adolescents 12 - 17 years old age

(n = 9300) mother

(n = 5300) father

this data collected annually using face to face interviews from parents and their children for the purpose of detecting the prevalence and correlates of substance use and substance use disorders among civilians in the United States ages 12 years and above considered a strength point and the sample size was large enough which considered another strength point.

Data analysis revealed two main theme:

1) Mothers have more influence than fathers on their adolescents, so, uneducated mothers are more risky to have adolescents with SUD than educated mothers.

2) Mothers with SUD co morbid with any mental illness are more risk to have adoscents with SUD than mothers with only SUD.

Practice (3)

Substance use disorder and associated

factors among prisoners in a correctional

institution in Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia: a

cross-sectional study

Yitayih et al. (2018)

to study the prevalence of SUD in Jimma and associated factors among prisoners.

n = 336

Being in caring strategies or interventions offered in correctional institutions will help to improve prisoners health and decrease the complications.

Analysis revealed four themes:

1) Lack of social support

2) live in urban areas

3) lack of supervision by parents

4) and individuals with psychopath illness are more likely to have SUD.

Practice (4)

Vulnerability or resilience to early substance use among

adolescents at risk: The roles of maltreatment and father

involvement

Yoon et al. (2018)

This study aimed to examine if maltreatment in early childhood 0 - 5 years and in mid-late childhood 6 - 12 years develop early substance use among adolescents.

n = 685

adolescents

(12 - 14)

This study gave a clue foe researchers to identify the children needs and help to develop a strategy to protect children from becoming substance users. In view of the requirements for information, it was verified that health education allowed parents to become aware of their children needs and aware how to protect them from substances.

Data Analysis revealed three main themes:

1) Lack of bonding between parents and children in the early childhood increase the risk to have adolescents for substance use.

1) Physical abuse during early childhood period (0 - 5 years of age) and mid-late childhood (6 - 12 years of age) increase the risk of adolescents for substance use than other children who didn’t experienced physical abuse.

3) Educated mothers are less likely to have adolescents with substance use.

Practice (5)

Extending poly-victimization theory: differential effects of adolescents’ experiences of victimization on substance use disorder diagnoses upon treatment entry

Davis, J et al. (2019)

The aim of the study is to assess if there a relationship between adolescents victimization and substance use disorder

n = 20,093

The sample size is large which considered a strength point , the analytical process take in consideration multiple aspects of victimization

Data analysis revealed one main theme:

1) adolescents who experience victimization more than two times are more risk to have SUD or psychiatric disorders.