Racial/ethnic differences in cigarette smoking initiation and progression to daily smoking: a multilevel analysis.
Am J Public Health
; 94(1): 128-35, 2004 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
We sought to identify individual and contextual predictors of adolescent smoking initiation and progression to daily smoking by race/ethnicity.METHODS:
We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to estimate the effects of individual (adolescent, family, peer) and contextual (school and state) factors on smoking onset among nonsmokers (n = 5374) and progression to daily smoking among smokers (n = 4474) with multilevel regression models.RESULTS:
Individual factors were more important predictors of smoking behaviors than were contextual factors. Predictors of smoking behaviors were mostly common across racial/ethnic groups.CONCLUSIONS:
The few identified racial/ethnic differences in predictors of smoking behavior suggest that universal prevention and intervention efforts could reach most adolescents regardless of race/ethnicity. With 2 exceptions, important contextual factors remain to be identified.
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Assunto principal:
Tabagismo
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Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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Hispânico ou Latino
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Fumar
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Comportamento do Adolescente
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População Branca
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Public Health
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos