The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): A prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland

• Kathryn Higgins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence & Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Aisling McLaughlin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aisling.mclaughlin@qub.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence & Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1561-0894

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• Oliver Perra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing & Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Claire McCartan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence & Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Mark McCann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Percy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence & Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Julie-Ann Jordan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Higgins, Aisling McLaughlin, Oliver Perra, Claire McCartan, Mark McCann, Andrew Percy, Julie-Ann Jordan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence & Social Innovation, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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