Der regelmäßige Kontakt mit der Familie während der Mahlzeiten kann dazu beitragen, Jugendliche (12 bis 17 Jahre) vom Konsum von Alkohol, Cannabis und E-Zigaretten abzuhalten, aber diejenigen mit erheblichem Stress oder Trauma benötigen zusätzliche Unterstützung

>For the study, published January 19 in the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, researchers analyzed online survey data from 2,090 U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 17 and their parents. Participants from around the country were asked about the quality of their family meals—including communication, enjoyment, digital distractions, and logistics—as well as adolescents’ alcohol, e-cigarette, and cannabis use in the previous six months.
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>The researchers then examined how these patterns differed based on adolescents’ experiences of household stressors and exposure to violence, as reported by both the children and parents. Instead of counting each adverse experience equally, the researchers created a weighted score based on how strongly the different experiences are linked to substance use in prior research and this national sample.
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>**Higher family dinner quality was associated with a 22% to 34% lower prevalence of substance use among adolescents who had either no or low to moderate levels of adverse childhood experiences.**

> The study found that family meals offered little protection for adolescents whose adversity score reached the equivalent of four or more experiences—a population that encompasses nearly one in five U.S. high school students younger than 18, according to a study of the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey data.

[Full article: Family Dinner Quality and Adolescent Substance Use: Moderation by Adverse Childhood Experiences](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10926771.2025.2611862)

Presumably they accounted for instances where the family is *the stress and trauma*?