Statistical Analyses for Published Manuscript:

Risk and protective factors related to substance use among Puerto Rican youths after Hurricane María: a cross-sectional study (Gonzalez et al., 2024)

Hello! In this repository you will find an HTML file and Microsoft Word document containing the R code and output for our manuscript. We hope that sharing our code publicly will allow our readers to review the statistical methods utilized in our study and, additionally, that our code will prove useful to other researchers who may be conducting similar analyses.

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Manuscript Authors

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Ph.D. ¹, Daniel K. Feinberg, M.Ed.², Regan W. Stewart, Ph.D.³, John Young, Ph.D.⁴, Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo, Ph.D.³

1. University of California, San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco, CA
2. University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, Santa Barbara, CA
3. Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Charleston, SC
4. University of Mississippi, Department of Psychology, University, MS

Data Availability

Due to confidentiality requirements, the dataset on which the present analyses were performed cannot be shared. However, please feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions about these analyses and how they may apply to your work. Additionally, if you notice any errors, I would really appreciate your feedback.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following people and organizations for their support and for allowing me the opportunity to learn from them as I worked on this project:

• John Young, Ph.D., and Andrew Maul, Ph.D., for kindly helping me with my many statistical questions.
• My co-authors on this project who have been so generous with their time and expertise.
• The Enhancing Diversity in Alcohol Research (EDAR) Program for the funding and support that made this project possible.
• The UCLA Advanced Research Computing Statistical Methods and Data Analytics Website for their excellent reference material on logit regression in R.

Of course, I must also acknowledge the debt of gratitude we owe to the many contributors who built and maintain the open source software that was vital to this project. Without their work, these analyses would not have been possible. Many thanks!