Psychosocial factors related to adolescent smoking: a critical review of the literature

Tyas, Suzanne L.; Pederson, Linda L.

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“…The age of smoking initiation is an important determinant of tobacco addiction (Unger and Chen, 1999). Adolescents who begin to smoke at younger ages are more likely to become regular smokers and less likely to quit (Tyas and Pederson, 1998). It has been reported that more than 80% of adult smokers began cigarette smoking at or before the age of eight (Alexander et al, 2001).…”

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Family Context Factors and the Risk of Smoking among Male Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Al‐Zalabani¹

2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Smoking behavior is related to numerous factors, including psychosocial parameters. This study investigated the association between family context factors and smoking among male adolescents. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional, school-based study was conducted during 2014. The study sampled 900 students from intermediate and secondary schools in Madinah City, Saudi Arabia. Data concerning smoking status, sociodemographic, parental and friends' smoking behavior, and family factors were collected using a selfadministered questionnaire. These data were employed to estimate the prevalence of smoking using appropriate statistical analyses including multivariate logistic regression. Results: Of 900 students, 870 completed the study questionnaire (96.7%). Of the respondents, 181 students (20.8%, 95% CI=18.1%-23.5%) were current smokers, and a much higher prevalence was observed among adolescents with most or all of their friends smoking (48.1%) and those living with neither parent (47.4%). The adjusted risk of smoking increased significantly among adolescents who lived with neither parent (OR=3.3; 95% CI=1.1-9.2) and among those who reported little or no parental supervision (OR=1.5; 95% CI=1.0-2.1). Conclusions: Family context factors are associated with an increased risk of smoking behavior among male adolescents in Saudi Arabia.

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Family Context Factors and the Risk of Smoking among Male Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Al‐Zalabani¹

2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Respecto de la variable edad, es evidente el típico incremento de la prevalencia de consumo de tabaco, conforme la edad avanza, reportado en otros estudios; 10,11,13,34 aunque el grupo de 11 a 12 doce muestra una fuerte asociación en ambos géneros en fumadores actuales.…”

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“…10,15,17,18,20 En las mujeres y, en menor medida en los hombres, que han presentado algún episodio de intoxicación aguda, la asociación con el desempeño escolar es menor; mientras que en los estudiantes que no han presentado intoxicación aguda por alcohol se mantiene la relación inversa entre desempeño escolar y consumo de tabaco. Esto puede deberse a la mayor influencia de la intoxicación aguda sobre el comportamiento de experimentación o consumo de tabaco actual, que hace perder casi toda la influencia de la variable desempeño escolar.…”

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“…9 Existen diversos estudios que muestran la asociación del hábito tabáquico en los adolescentes, con una gran variedad de factores tanto sociales, econó-micos, ambientales, biológicos y personales. 10 Uno de ellos es el desempeño escolar, indicador que refleja características de compromiso educacional, motivación, competencia y éxito escolar. 11 ,12 Algunos trabajos refieren una mayor prevalencia de consumo de tabaco, asociada con la autopercepción de un pobre desempeño académico.…”

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Prevalencia de tabaquismo y bajo desempeño escolar, en estudiantes de 11 a 24 años de edad del estado de Morelos, México

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“…During this time, the twins began to live apart and spend substantially less time with one another. Data on the use of tobacco as well as information on the smoking behaviours of friends and parents, factors found to be influential in adolescent smoking behaviour (Conrad et al, 1992;Tyas and Pederson, 1998), were collected at each wave.…”

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Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

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We used data from a prospective cohort study of twins to investigate the influence of unmeasured genetic and measured and unmeasured environmental factors on the smoking behaviour of adolescents and young adults. Twins were surveyed in 1988 (aged 11 -18 years), 1991, 1996 and 2004 with data from 1409, 1121, 732 and 758 pairs analysed from each survey wave, respectively. Questionnaires assessed the smoking behaviour of twins and the perceived smoking behaviour of friends and parents. Using a novel logistic regression analysis, we simultaneously modelled individual risk and excess concordance for current smoking as a function of zygosity, survey wave, parental smoking and peer smoking. Being concordant for having peers who smoked was a predictor of concordance for current smoking (Po0.001). After adjusting for peer smoking, monozygotic (MZ) pairs were no more alike than dizygotic pairs for current smoking at waves 2, 3 and 4. Genetic explanations are not needed to explain the greater concordance for current smoking among adult MZ pairs. However, if they are invoked, the role of genes may be due to indirect effects acting through the social environment. Smoking prevention efforts may benefit more by targeting social factors than attempting to identify genetic factors associated with smoking. Smoking is an important cause of preventable mortality and morbidity in later life (Ezzati and Lopez, 2004), so there is a need to understand the factors associated with its uptake and establishment. Twin studies have the potential to identify whether genetic factors might play a role in explaining individual variation in smoking behaviours. The observation that identical (monozygotic; MZ) twin pairs are more similar than same-sex non-identical (dizygotic; DZ) twin pairs is often interpreted as showing that genetic factors play a role, because this finding is consistent with such an explanation under the assumptions of the classic twin model (CTM). One of the main assumptions of the CTM is that the effects of the shared environment on the relevant trait are the same for MZ and DZ pairs (the equal environments assumption (EEA)). Under this assumption, any greater similarity for MZ pairs compared with DZ pairs is attributed to their greater genetic similarity.Using the CTM, studies of the smoking behaviour of adult twins have been interpreted as showing that genetic factors play a major role in both initiation and persistence of smoking (Carmelli et al,

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Psychosocial factors related to adolescent smoking: a critical review of the literature

Cited by 759 publications

References 151 publications

Family Context Factors and the Risk of Smoking among Male Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Family Context Factors and the Risk of Smoking among Male Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Prevalencia de tabaquismo y bajo desempeño escolar, en estudiantes de 11 a 24 años de edad del estado de Morelos, México

Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

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