Jasmina Burdzovic

• Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Burdzovic, Jasmina; Gjersing, Linn; Øiestad, Elisabeth Leere & Gjerde, Hallvard (2019). Identification and Assessment of Drug-User Groups Among Nightlife Attendees: Self-Reports, Breathalyzer-Tests and Oral Fluid Drug Tests. European Addiction Research.  ISSN 1022-6877.  25(2), s 93- 102 . doi: 10.1159/000497318 Full text in Research Archive.
• Brunborg, Geir Scott & Burdzovic, Jasmina (2019). Increase in time spent on social media is associated with modest increase in depression, conduct problems, and episodic heavy drinking. Journal of Adolescence.  ISSN 0140-1971.  74, s 201- 209 . doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.06.013
• Brunborg, Geir Scott; Scheffels, Janne; Tokle, Rikke Iren; Buvik, Kristin; Kvaavik, Elisabeth & Burdzovic, Jasmina (2019). Monitoring young lifestyles (MyLife) - a prospective longitudinal quantitative and qualitative study of youth development and substance use in Norway. BMJ Open.  ISSN 2044-6055.  9(10), s 1- 13 . doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031084 Full text in Research Archive.
• Burdzovic, Jasmina (2019). Perceived harmfulness of various alcohol- and cannabis use modes: Secular trends, differences, and associations with actual substance use behaviors among Norwegian adolescents, 2007-2015. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.  ISSN 0376-8716.  197, s 280- 287 . doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.02.003
• Lund, Ingunn Olea; Skurtveit, Svetlana; Handal, Marte; Bukten, Anne; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Ystrøm, Eivind & Burdzovic, Jasmina (2019). Association of constellations of parental risk with children's subsequent anxiety and depression: Findings from a HUNT survey and health registry study. JAMA pediatrics.  ISSN 2168-6203.  173(3), s 251- 259 . doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.4360 Full text in Research Archive.
• Pape, Hilde; Rossow, Ingeborg; Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Norstrøm, Thor-Arvid (2018). Social Class and Alcohol Use by Youth: Different Drinking Behaviors, Different Associations?. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.  ISSN 1937-1888.  79(1), s 132- 136 . doi: 10.15288/jsad.2017.79.132 Full text in Research Archive.
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line (2017). Ready, willing, and able: The role of cannabis use opportunities in understanding adolescent cannabis use. Addiction.  ISSN 0965-2140.  112(11), s 1973- 1982 . doi: 10.1111/add.13901
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Brunborg, Geir Scott (2017). Depressive Symptomatology among Norwegian Adolescent Boys and Girls: The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) Psychometric Properties and Correlates. Frontiers in Psychology.  ISSN 1664-1078.  8 . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00887 Full text in Research Archive.
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & O'Farrell, Timothy J. (2017). Psychosocial problems in children of women entering substance use disorder treatment: A longitudinal study. Addictive Behaviours.  ISSN 0306-4603.  65, s 193- 197 . doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.10.015 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  While parental substance use disorder (SUD) has been recognized as a risk factor for child outcomes, past research seldom focused specifically on children whose mothers suffer from alcohol and drug use disorders. Are these children at risk for elevated psychosocial problems, and would such risk be reduced if maternal substance use was reduced? Children of substance-abusing mothers (COSAM, N = 130) were compared to a demographically matched comparison sample, and examined soon after their mothers entered SUD treatment and in the 18 months after treatment entry. We expected to observe elevated symptomatology among COSAM at baseline assessment, followed by a decreasing trend after maternal treatment in general, and remission in particular. Children's psychosocial problems were assessed through maternal reports on the Pediatric Symptom Checklist. Soon after their mothers entered SUD treatment, COSAM exhibited significantly greater overall and clinical-level psychosocial problems than the children from the matched comparison sample. However, at the end of the 18-months study period, these two groups no longer differed in terms of problems. Results from the longitudinal growth models revealed reductions in COSAM's overall and clinical-level problems following their mothers' SUD treatment. However, these reductions were similar for all COSAM, regardless of whether their mothers relapsed or remitted. Psychosocial problems were significantly reduced in COSAM following maternal SUD treatment, such that COSAM did not significantly differ from children from the matched comparison sample by the end of the 18-month study period.

• Brunborg, Geir Scott; Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Kvaavik, Elisabeth (2017). Social Media Use and Episodic Heavy Drinking Among Adolescents. Psychological Reports.  ISSN 0033-2941.  120(3), s 475- 490 . doi: 10.1177/0033294117697090 Show summary

  Little is known about the consequences of adolescent social media use. The current study estimated the association between the amount of time adolescents spend on social media and the risk of episodic heavy drinking. Methods A school-based self-report cross-sectional study including 851 Norwegian middle and high school students (46.1% boys). Measures: frequency and quantity of social media use. Frequency of drinking four or six (girls and boys, respectively) alcoholic drinks during a single day (episodic heavy drinking). The MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status, the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale - Brief, the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 items for Adolescents, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire Peer Relationship problems scale, gender, and school grade. Results Greater amount of time spent on social media was associated with greater likelihood of episodic heavy drinking among adolescents (OR = 1.12, 95% CI (1.05, 1.19), p = 0.001), even after adjusting for school grade, impulsivity, sensation seeking, symptoms of depression, and peer relationship problems. Conclusion The results from the current study indicate that more time spent on social media is related to greater likelihood of episodic heavy drinking among adolescents.

• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic; Pape, Hilde & Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line (2016). Who are the adolescents saying “No” to cannabis offers. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.  ISSN 0376-8716.  163, s 64- 70 . doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.03.025 Show summary

  Adolescents who refuse direct cannabis offers and remain non-users represent a potentially very informative, yet surprisingly understudied group. We examined a range of risk and protective factors putatively associated with this poorly understood “cannabis-resilient” profile. Paper-and-pencil questionnaires assessing substance use, peer and family relations, and behavioral and personality characteristics were completed by 19,303 middle- and high-school students from 82 schools in Norway (response rate 84%) The lifetime prevalence of cannabis use was 7.6%. Another 10.4% reported no use of the drug despite having received recent cannabis offers. Results from the multinomial logistic regression revealed a set of characteristics differentiating adolescents who resisted such offers from those who: (a) neither received the offers nor used, and, more importantly, (b) used the drug. Specifically, parent-child relationship quality, negative drug-related beliefs, absence of close relationships with cannabis-users, low delinquency, no regular tobacco use, and infrequent alcohol intoxication were all associated with increased odds of being in the cannabis-resilient vs. cannabis-user group. This pattern of results was comparable across middle- and high-school cohorts, but the parent-child relationship quality and delinquency were significantly associated with cannabis-resilient vs. cannabis-use outcome only among younger and older adolescents, respectively. Among other low-risk characteristics, better relationships with parents and beliefs that drug use is problematic were associated with adolescents’ refusals to accept cannabis offers. These results may have implications for novel preventive strategies targeting cannabis-exposed adolescents.

• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Watson, Malcolm W. (2016). Person-Environment Interactions and Adolescent Substance Use: The Role of Sensation Seeking and Perceived Neighborhood Risk. Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse.  ISSN 1067-828X.  25(5), s 438- 447 . doi: 10.1080/1067828X.2015.1066722 Show summary

  Aims: This longitudinal study investigated person-environment interactions and adolescent substance use by examining whether, and if so how, early temperamental quality of sensation seeking interacted with current neighborhood characteristics to shape underage smoking, drinking, and marijuana use. Sample: Participants consisted of a community-representative sample of 352 adolescents. Methods: Early temperament was assessed when adolescents were between seven and 13 years of age, and current neighborhood characteristics (as perceived by participants and their mothers) and current adolescent substance use (self-reported smoking, drinking, and marijuana use in the past 30 days) were assessed approximately three years later. Results: The results from a zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regression revealed a potent negative effect of the perceived neighborhood risk, such that riskier neighborhoods were associated with both a greater probability for any substance use among adolescents, and a greater frequency of substance use among those who were engaging in these behaviors. High sensation seeking was a risk factor only for frequency of substance use among adolescent extant users, but not for the likelihood of any use. In addition, a significant interaction between sensation seeking and neighborhood risk revealed that adolescent sensation seekers engaged in smoking, drinking, and marijuana use primarily under conditions of elevated neighborhood risk and increased opportunity for such behaviors. Conclusion: Underage substance use was affected by synergistic effects between personal and community risk factors.

• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Jackson, Kristina M. (2015). Adolescent Alcohol Use Before and After the High School Transition. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.  ISSN 0145-6008.  39(6), s 1034- 1041 . doi: 10.1111/acer.12730 Full text in Research Archive.
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic; Lauritzen, Grete Ostling & Nordfjærn, Trond (2015). Co-occurrence between mental distress and poly-drug use: A ten year prospective study of patients from substance abuse treatment. Addictive Behaviours.  ISSN 0306-4603.  48, s 71- 78 . doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.05.001
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic & Pape, Hilde (2015). Who receives cannabis use offers: A general population study of adolescents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.  ISSN 0376-8716.  156, s 150- 156 . doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.09.009 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Drug use is predicated on a combination of “willingness” and “opportunity”. That is, independent of any desire to use drugs, a drug use opportunity is required; be it indirect (i.e., being in a drug-use setting) or direct (i.e., receiving a direct drug offer). However, whether some youth are more likely to encounter such direct drug use opportunities is not fully known. We examined whether certain characteristics placed adolescents at greater risk for being offered cannabis, after accounting for a number of demographic-, contextual-, interpersonal-, and personal-level risk factors. We utilized data from a Norwegian school survey (n = 19,309) where the likelihood of receiving cannabis offer in the past year was estimated using logistic regression models. Substantive focus was on the individual and combined effects of personal (i.e., delinquency) and interpersonal (i.e., cannabis-using close friend) risk factors. Separate models were fit for middle- and high-school students. Delinquency was a significant risk factor for receiving cannabis offers, as was a cannabis-using best friend. In addition, peer cannabis use increased the risk of cannabis offers mostly for adolescents on the lower delinquency spectrum, but less so for highly delinquent adolescents. These interaction effects were primarily driven by the middle-school cohort. Cannabis offers were more likely to be extended to youth of certain high-risk profiles. Targeted prevention strategies can therefore be extended to a general profile of younger adolescents with externalizing problems and cannabis-using peers.

• Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Lillehagen, Mats; Gjersing, Linn Renathe & Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic (2015). Illicit use of opioid substitution drugs: Prevalence, user characteristics, and the association with non-fatal overdoses. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.  ISSN 0376-8716.  147(1), s 89- 96 . doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.12.002 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Diversion of opioid substitution drugs (OSD) is of public concern. This study examined the prevalence, frequency, and predictors of illicit OSD use in a group of injecting drug users (IDUs) and assessed if such use was associated with non-fatal overdoses. Semi-annual cross-sectional interviews conducted in Oslo, Norway (2006–2013), from 1355 street-recruited IDUs. Hurdle, logistic, and multinomial regression models were employed. Overall, 27% reported illicit OSD use in the past four weeks; 16.8% methadone, 12.5% buprenorphine, and 2.9% both drugs. Almost 1/10 reported at least one non-fatal overdose in the past four weeks, and roughly 1/3 reported such experience in the past year. Use of additional drugs tended to be equally, or more prevalent among illicit OSD users than other IDUs. In terms of illicit OSD use being a risk factor for non-lethal overdoses, our results showed significant associations only for infrequent buprenorphine use (using once or less than once per week). Other factors associated with non-fatal overdoses included age, education, homelessness, as well as the benzodiazepines, stimulants, and heroin use. Users of diverted OSD may represent a high-risk population, as they used more additional drugs and used them more frequently than other IDUs. However, illicit OSD use may be less harmful than previously assumed. After accounting for an extensive set of covariates, only infrequent illicit buprenorphine use, but not methadone use, was associated with non-fatal overdoses.

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• Burdzovic, Jasmina; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Ystrøm, Eivind; Skurtveit, Svetlana; Handal, Marte & Lund, Ingunn Olea (2019). Alcohol use disorder (AUD) in offspring following exposure to parental risk constellations during adolescence: A combined HUNT survey and health registries study.
• Lund, Ingunn Olea; Skurtveit, Svetlana; Handal, Marte; Bukten, Anne; Torvik, Fartein Ask; Ystrøm, Eivind & Burdzovic, Jasmina (2019). Association of Constellations of Parental Risk With Children's Subsequent Anxiety and Depression: Findings From a HUNT Survey and Health Registry Study.
• Burdzovic, Jasmina (2018). Making Connections Between Parenting Practices and Adolescent Substance Use. Journal of Adolescent Health.  ISSN 1054-139X.  62(6), s 643- 644 . doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.03.007
• Burdzovic, Jasmina & Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line (2018). Consideration of use opportunities, novel products, and user modes in cannabis monitoring, research, and policy: a response to the commentary. Addiction.  ISSN 0965-2140.  113(3), s 575- 576 . doi: 10.1111/add.14108
• Andreas, Jasmina Burdzovic; Lauritzen, Grethe & Nordfjærn, Trond (2015). Poly-drug use and mental distress comorbidity: A 10-year prospective study of patients from substance abuse treatment in Norway.

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