Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 61-69 , January 2010

Externalizing Behavior Problems and Cigarette Smoking as Predictors of Cannabis Use: The TRAILS Study

  • Tellervo Korhonen, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • National Institute of Health and Welfare & University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Tellervo Korhonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, P.O.Box 41, FIN - 00014 Helsinki
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  • Andrea Prince van Leeuwen, M.A.

      Affiliations

    • Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Johan Ormel, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE), University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and the Graduate School for Experimental Psychopathology, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Frank C. Verhulst, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Anja C. Huizink, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

,Accepted 23 September 2009.

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 This research is part of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS). Participating centers of TRAILS include various departments of the University Medical Center and University of Groningen, the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the University of Utrecht, the Radboud Medical Center Nijmegen, and the Trimbos Institute, all in the Netherlands. Principal investigators are Prof.dr. J. Ormel (University Medical Center Groningen) and Prof.dr. F.C. Verhulst (Erasmus University Medical Center). TRAILS has been financially supported by various grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO (Medical Research Council program grant GB-MW 940-38-011; ZonMW Brainpower grant 100-001-004; ZonMw Risk Behavior and Dependence grants 60-60600-98-018 and 60-60600-97-118; ZonMw Culture and Health grant 261-98-710; Social Sciences Council medium-sized investment grants GB-MaGW 480-01-006 and GB-MaGW 480-07-001; Social Sciences Council project grants GB-MaGW 457-03-018, GB-MaGW 452-04-314, and GB-MaGW 452-06-004; NWO large-sized investment grant 175.010.2003.005); the Sophia Foundation for Medical Research (projects 301 and 393), the Dutch Ministry of Justice (WODC), and the participating universities. We are grateful to all adolescents, their parents, and teachers who participated in this research and to everyone who worked on this project and made it possible. The present analysis was also supported in part by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) – Vidi scheme, Netherlands (452-06-004 to ACH, TK, and APvL).

 Disclosure: Dr. Verhulst is author and head of the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Erasmus MC, which publishes the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) and from which he receives remuneration. Drs. Korhonen, Reijneveld, Ormel, and Huizink, and Ms. van Leeuwen report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflict of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)00003-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2009.09.001

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 61-69 , January 2010

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