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## Abstract ## Background The purpose of the study was to investigate smoking, alcohol use, illicit drug use and sexual risk taking among adolescent survivors of childhood cancer treated in Australia. ## Procedure A comparison study selecting on exposure (cancer vs. healthy) and administering a branched computerised questionnaire assessing health‐risk behaviour, predominately by telephone interview. One hundred fifty‐three adolescent survivors of childhood cancer were compared with age matched healthy adolescents drawn from one of two Australian population based surveys of adolescent health. Behaviours assessed were tobacco use, alcohol use, binge drinking, cannabis use, pain reliever use, other illicit drug use and unprotected sex. ## Results Compared to their healthy peers, younger survivors (13‐ to 17‐years) were at an increased risk of reporting pain reliever use (OR = 2.1) for non‐medical purposes, but lower risk of binge drinking (OR = 0.20), cannabis use (OR = 0.25), other illicit drug use (OR = 0.31), tobacco use (OR = 0.38) and alcohol use (OR = 0.44). Older survivors (18‐ to 24‐years) were at an increased risk of reporting alcohol use (OR 1.5), but at lower risk of report

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Author

Catherine Bauld; J.W. Toumbourou; V. Anderson; C. Coffey; C.A. Olsson

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1545-5009)

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)