Projects & Publications

Projects

Below is a list of our running C-SURF research projects.

Scientific researchers who are interested in using C-SURF data to investigate the same topics as mentionned below should not hesitate to get in touch with us. Other research topics are of course possible.

Substance use among adolescents:

• Substance use among 19 year old men in Switzerland - are there cultural differences?
• Estimating substance use related outcomes in an ecological model
• Adolescent substance use trajectories from late adolescence to early adulthood; peers and siblings
• Adolescent substance use trajectories from late adolescence to early adulthood; family history
• Testing the gateway hypothesis
• Adolescent substance use trajectories from late adolescence to early adulthood; psychological factors
• Substance use: is there any geographical difference?

Substance use and sexual dysfunction:

• The influence of substance use on male sexual dysfunction

Alcohol consumption:

• Multi-level modelling of the association between availability and alcohol use
• Disentangling the effectiveness of multiple measures implemented in a National Alcohol Program in reducing harmful alcohol consumption
• The causal role of drinking motives in the prediction of alcohol consumption over time
• Counselor's influence on brief motivational interventions efficacy to reduce alcohol use in young men
• Alcohol use, smoking tobacco and cannabis: the reversed gateway hypothesis with a focus on alcohol
• Socio-economic backgrounds and alcohol use and related disorders

Tobacco:

• The impact of passive smoking laws on smoking behaviour
• Alcohol use, smoking tobacco and cannabis: the reversed gateway hypothesis with a focus on tobacco
• Smokeless tobacco: harmless cultural phenomenon or hazardous initiation drug?

Miscellaneous:

• The effects of consenting, refusal, attrition, and missing values in a population census of 19 year old men
• Maturing out and social roles

Publications