Susceptibility to Smoking Among White and Chinese Nonsmoking Adolescents in Canada
In: Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.), Jg. 25 (2008), Heft 1, S. 18-27
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Objective: To document the prevalence of susceptibility to smoking among a sample of White/Caucasian and Chinese Canadian adolescent nonsmokers, and to explore the factors that might explain who is susceptible to smoking. Design: This study used a secondary analysis of data from students participating in the British Columbia Youth Survey on Smoking and Health in 2001/2002. Sample: The sample included 1,870 10th and 11th graders who were nonsmokers with either a White or a Chinese ethnic background. Measurements: Questionnaire data consisted of demographic and social factors, previous smoking experience, and susceptibility to smoking. Results: Among the total sample, 27.7% were susceptible to smoking. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that 11th graders were less susceptible than 10th graders (odds ratio [OR] = 0.80,95% confidence interval [CI] 0.64-0.99), and girls were more susceptible than boys (OR = 1.32, 95% CI 1.05-1.65). Ethnicity did not help to explain susceptibility to smoking in this study. Conclusions: The findings indicated the effects of gender and grade on predicting susceptibility to smoking. Even though the Chinese Canadian adolescents had the same risk of susceptibility to smoking as White/Caucasians, the factors that put them at risk may be different, which suggests the need to further examine the ethnic-specific predictors of susceptibility to smoking.
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Susceptibility to Smoking Among White and Chinese Nonsmoking Adolescents in Canada
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | WEIHONG, CHEN ; BOTTORFF, Joan L ; JOHNSON, Joy L ; SAEWYC, Elizabeth M ; ZUMBO, Bruno D |
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Zeitschrift: | Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.), Jg. 25 (2008), Heft 1, S. 18-27 |
Veröffentlichung: | Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print; 10; 1 p.3/4 |
ISSN: | 0737-1209 (print) |
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