Predictors of Cigarette and Alcohol Susceptibility and Use among Hispanic Migrant Adolescents

Elder, John P.; Campbell, Nadia R.; Litrownik, Alan J.; Ayala, Guadalupe X.; Slymen, Donald J.; Parra‐Medina, Deborah; Lovato, Chris Y.

doi:10.1006/pmed.2000.0693

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“…The finding was consistent to Elder et al (2000), who reported "ever-smoker" were more likely to be susceptible to smoking (OR 1.81;. Our finding may be partially explained by the "familiar heuristic" process occurring in the cognitive domain of a person who has smoked before, where previous habits were kept and would influence future behavior.…”

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“…In this study, the percentage of susceptibility-tosmoking increases with age, from 12% among Form 1 (age 13 years old) to 15.2% (Form 2-age 14 years old) and 16.8% among those in Form 4 (16 years old); the finding is consistent with Chen et al (2008), Elder et al (2000), Carvajal et al 2004, Ertas (2007 and Elton -Marshall et al (2013) all reported the increasing trend of susceptibility with increasing age i.e, from 14% among 7 th grader, 16.3% (8 th grade) and 19.2% among high school students. The finding in the current study may also partially explain why susceptibility-to-smoking increases in inverse proportion to the level of parental monitoring exercised, that is, as monitoring decreases with a growing child susceptibility increases (Carvajal et al, 2004;Waa et al, 2011;Ozturk et al, 2013).…”

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Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

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Ghazali²,

Kee³

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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Smoking among adolescents has been linked to a variety of adverse and long term health consequences. "Susceptibility to smoking" or the lack of cognitive commitment to abstain from smoking is an important predictor of adolescent smoking. In 2008, we conducted a study to determine the psycho-sociological factors associated with susceptibility to smoking among secondary school students in the district of Kota Tinggi, Johor. Materials and Methods: Two thousand seven hundred students were randomly selected by proportional stratified sampling. Analyses on 1,736 non-smoking students revealed that prevalence of adolescents susceptible to smoking was 16.3%. Results: Male gender (aOR=2.05, 95%CI= 1.23-3.39), poor academic achievement (aOR 1.60, 95%CI 1.05-2.44), ever-smoker (aOR 2.17, 95%CI 1.37-3.44) and having a smoking friend (aOR 1.76, 95%CI 1.10-2.83) were associated with susceptibility to smoking, while having the perception that smoking prohibition in school was strictly enforced (aOR 0.55, 95%CI 0.32-0.94), and had never seen friends smoking in a school compound (aOR 0.59, 95%CI 0.37-0.96) were considered protective factors Conclusions: These results indicate that follow-up programmes need to capitalise on the modifiable factors related to susceptibility to smoking by getting all stakeholders to be actively involved to stamp out smoking initiation among adolescents.

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confidence: 84%

Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Hock

Ghazali²,

Kee³

et al. 2013

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…All of these experiences are associated with increased psychological distress and anxiety, which in turn may result in elevated levels of alcohol intoxication among migrants (Huriwai, 2002;Elder et al, 2000;Griffin and Soskolne, 2003).…”

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Alcohol intoxication and sexual risk behaviors among rural-to-urban migrants in China

Lin

Yang

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Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background-The migrant population in China is at high risk for sexual risk behavior and alcohol intoxication. Information about the prevalence of alcohol intoxication and its association with sexual risk behavior among migrants is needed for designing effective intervention prevention programs for reduction in alcohol abuse and HIV infection.Methods-Cross-sectional data were collected from 2153 sexually experienced young rural-tourban migrants in Beijing and Nanjing, China, in 2002.Results-Approximately one-third of the participants had been intoxicated with alcohol at least once during the previous month, with more males than females reporting intoxication (40.2% versus 23.7%, p < 0.001). Compared to non-intoxicated participants, respondents with alcohol intoxication in previous 30 days reported more psychological problems, including higher depression scores, lower levels of satisfaction with life and work, and higher perception of peer involvement in risk behavior. Intoxicated respondents were more likely to engage in premarital sex than non-intoxicated respondents (76% versus 60.2%, p < 0.001), have multiple sexual partners (13.4% versus 5.2%, p < 0.001), purchase sex (12.6% versus 4.9%, p < 0.001), and sell sex (10.1% versus 3.7%, p < 0.001). However, there was no association between alcohol intoxication and inconsistent/non-use of condoms. Multivariate analysis controlling for depression, peer risk involvement, age, gender, and other socio-demographic variables indicated that alcohol intoxication was independently correlated with premarital sex, multiple sexual partners, and buying and selling sex.Conclusions-Compared to the general Chinese population, levels of intoxication were elevated among Chinese rural-to-urban migrants. Alcohol intoxication was associated with sexual risk behaviors. HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention efforts should include components of alcohol use/ abuse prevention for an effective reduction of sexual risk among young rural-to-urban migrants in China.

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“…We focus specifically on the interaction of places and people. Finally, our model reflects our collective experience working primarily with Mexicans/ Mexican American populations along the U.S. Mexico border (8,10,11,13,[28][29][30][31][32][33]64) and also in the U.S. Southeast region (12,22,36,53,70,100,105), as well as our leadership and participation in national Latino research efforts (see http://www.redesenaccion.org/ and http://www.cscc.unc.edu/hchs/). …”

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Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

Elder

Ayala

Parra‐Medina³

et al. 2009

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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With reference to the Communication-Persuasion model, we describe various research issues and challenges when considering the health of Latinos, and implications for designing and evaluating health communication and behavior change efforts in this population. Latinos, collectively the nation's largest minority group, vary substantially in terms of socioeconomic and legal status, their country of origin and the extent of ongoing contact with that country, their region of residence within the United States, their generation status and levels of acculturation, and psychosocial factors. Health communication efforts with Latinos need to focus on family, cultural traditions, and collectivism while attending to acculturation, language, generation and national origin. The most extensive intervention topic in Latino health promotion has been the application of the lay health advisor model. This and other fundamental communication approaches, as well as audience and population characteristics, need to be considered within the context of dynamic and complex societal changes. PART I: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATESMany national health and social science studies, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and other surveys, treat Latinos 1 as though they were a homogenous group. However, as Modiano and colleagues (75) stated,The aggregation of culturally distinct subgroups, which have resided in the United States for different periods of time, into a more inclusive Latino category assumes that all persons of Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican origin have similar needs and experience similar barriers in using health services.There is, however, no clear evidence for this assumption. On the contrary, there is evidence that each group has specific characteristics that make it different and independent from one another. . . . (p. 35) Clearly, extraordinary diversity exists among subgroups of Latinos. The immigration and acculturation experiences of Mexican or Central American-descended Americans, South Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans vary substantially from one another. The distinction among Latino subgroups can be traced back to highly varied experiences not only with respect to encounters with the dominant American culture but also extending back to Spanish colonization, which began to redefine the western hemisphere 500 years ago. Indigenous groups in the Caribbean Islands and coastal areas largely succumbed to Iberian diseases and aggression and were replaced by Europeans and African slaves. Although forced to adopt much of the culture and religion of the conquistadores, indigenous groups in central and highland areas of Mexico and further south survived 1 The field offers no consensus regarding the term to refer to persons of Latin American heritage who live in the United States. Both "Hispanic" and "Latino" are used extensively, although U.S. government documents, including the Census, use the term Hispanic. Given this mixed usage in the literature, we use the term Latino to indicate, where po...

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Predictors of Cigarette and Alcohol Susceptibility and Use among Hispanic Migrant Adolescents

Cited by 100 publications

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Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Correlates of Susceptibility to Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia

Alcohol intoxication and sexual risk behaviors among rural-to-urban migrants in China

Health Communication in the Latino Community: Issues and Approaches

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