Child Maltreatment, Substance Use, and Quality of Life in a Norwegian Population Sample

Frida Grimsland's dataset analyzes associations between child maltreatment, substance use, and quality of life using 2023 survey data from the Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey for Agder. The data includes prevalence rates for nicotine and alcohol use among individuals with and without a history of maltreatment, alongside latent regression analysis results. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the association between child maltreatment and nicotine use based on prevalence statistics for smoking and snus.
• Investigating potential mediating roles of substance use on quality of life based on latent regression analysis results.
• Comparing alcohol use patterns, including frequency and binge drinking, between groups with and without maltreatment history.
• Studying sociodemographic-adjusted differences in health behaviors within a Norwegian population sample.

Strengths

• Includes specific prevalence statistics, such as 35.8% nicotine use in the CM group versus 25.6% in the non-CM group.
• Reports detailed regression analysis results, including a beta coefficient of -0.61 for the CM-QoL association.
• Data originates from a named public health survey (Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey for Agder).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small in scale at 200.9 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Norwegian Counties Public Health Survey for Agder

Collection Method

Survey data analyzed using latent regression methods.

Time Range

2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 05:41:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Agder, Norway