Self-report distortions of puffing topography in daily smokers

Pulcu, Erdem

doi:10.1177/1359105314560917

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“…Regarding puff count, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test result shows that 85% of the smokers underestimate the puff number per cigarette. This finding is consistent with the results of Pulcu [ 16 ] with English smokers under-reporting puff numbers in a self-report survey. Similarly, 86% of smokers under-reported the total smoking time in the self-report survey.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…For any device returned on the second day, raw recorded data downloaded from it and broken puff records, with puff duration <0.05s, were excluded. For each participant, total smoking time was estimated using equation 2 [ 7 , 16 ]. The time to first cigarette (TTFC Device ) is calculated by considering the differences between the reported wake-up time and the device-recorded time of the first cigarette after the reported time.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2008, Shahab et al [ 14 ] showed that for a group of 118 smokers from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the correlation between puff counts per cigarette and inter-puff intervals measured through self-report surveys with the ones measured using the CReSSmicro instrument are weak but statistically significant. On the other hand, results of a similar but more recent study conducted by Pulcu [ 16 ] in 2016 on 110 smokers in the United Kingdom indicate that smokers may underestimate the puff counts per cigarette. This underestimation was evaluated to be very significant because it could reduce susceptibility to the incidence of respiratory diseases.…”

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confidence: 93%

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Comparison between self-reported smoking habits and daily ad-libitum smoking topography in a group of Korean smokers

Yang

Hashemi

Lee

et al. 2022

Environ Anal Health Toxicol

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Tobacco smoking is associated with a high global mortality rate since it is known to cause cancers and lung and heart diseases. To control and reduce annual mortality attributed to smoking, it is essential to design applicable smoke cessation programs based on realistic tobacco exposure risk assessment. In this regard, understanding the smoking habits of the smoker is crucial. Using self-report smoking habit surveys is a common approach in measuring basic variables of smoking habits. However, smoking topography measurement devices have recently become available for investigating smoking habit variables accurately. In this study, we conducted a self-report survey to investigate a group of Korean smokers’ smoking habit variables such as the number of smoked cigarettes per day, puff counts, and total smoking time. The survey also included items from the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND). The results were compared with the corresponding variables from machine-determined data to investigate their correlation and reliability. Results indicate that Korean smokers have a reliable understanding of the average number of cigarettes they smoke daily (ρ = 0.517, Cronbach’s α = 0.754) and the time to first cigarette (TTFC) after waking up (ρ = -0.587, Cronbach’s α = 0.623), as fundamental items of the FTND score. Nevertheless, these smokers significantly under-reported the puff number and total smoking time, which can cause significant underestimation in the tobacco exposure risk assessment. Consequently, we suggest the application of self-report surveys that are based on the amount of daily smoked cigarettes (e.g. FTND) for clinical or risk assessment purposes. Using smoking topography measurement devices is recommended overusing self-report surveys in measuring smoking habit variables such as puff count and smoking time more accurately.

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confidence: 93%

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Comparison between self-reported smoking habits and daily ad-libitum smoking topography in a group of Korean smokers

Yang

Hashemi

Lee

et al. 2022

Environ Anal Health Toxicol

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“…Measurement error could also be introduced by participants over-reporting traits perceived to be ‘desirable’ such as education and underreporting traits perceived to be ‘undesirable’ such as smoking behaviour. 54 The estimates for all three risk factors together were more similar between observational and mendelian randomisation estimates, although for all models, the confidence intervals were wide. Note that although mendelian randomisation is more robust to measurement error, the instruments might not necessarily be capturing all aspects of the exposure phenotype under consideration.…”

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confidence: 78%

Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study

Carter

Gill

Davies

et al. 2019

BMJ

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ObjectivesTo investigate the role of body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour in explaining the effect of education on the risk of cardiovascular disease outcomes.DesignMendelian randomisation study.SettingUK Biobank and international genome-wide association study data.ParticipantsPredominantly participants of European ancestry.ExposureEducational attainment, BMI, systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour in observational analysis, and randomly allocated genetic variants to instrument these traits in mendelian randomisation.Main outcomes measureThe risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular disease (all subtypes; all measured in odds ratio), and the degree to which this is mediated through BMI, systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour respectively.ResultsEach additional standard deviation of education (3.6 years) was associated with a 13% lower risk of coronary heart disease (odds ratio 0.86, 95% confidence interval 0.84 to 0.89) in observational analysis and a 37% lower risk (0.63, 0.60 to 0.67) in mendelian randomisation analysis. As a proportion of the total risk reduction, BMI was estimated to mediate 15% (95% confidence interval 13% to 17%) and 18% (14% to 23%) in the observational and mendelian randomisation estimates, respectively. Corresponding estimates were 11% (9% to 13%) and 21% (15% to 27%) for systolic blood pressure and 19% (15% to 22%) and 34% (17% to 50%) for smoking behaviour. All three risk factors combined were estimated to mediate 42% (36% to 48%) and 36% (5% to 68%) of the effect of education on coronary heart disease in observational and mendelian randomisation analyses, respectively. Similar results were obtained when investigating the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, and cardiovascular disease.ConclusionsBMI, systolic blood pressure, and smoking behaviour mediate a substantial proportion of the protective effect of education on the risk of cardiovascular outcomes and intervening on these would lead to reductions in cases of cardiovascular disease attributable to lower levels of education. However, more than half of the protective effect of education remains unexplained and requires further investigation.

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“…Even though we are not alone in our struggle to recruit a truly representative sample in cross‐cultural research (Olatundun, 2009), future research should try to replicate <edit>our findings in more nationally representative samples. Additionally, our measures were self‐reported, which can result in socially desirable responses (e.g., Pulcu, 2016; Van Bussel, Spitz & Demyttenaere, 2010). Even though this can be challenging, future research could aim to include responses from fathers and mothers in addition to early adolescents’ self‐report to obtain parents’ perspectives on the parent‐child relationship across different countries (see Lansford et al ., 2018 for an example).…”

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Parent‐early adolescent relationship quality and problem behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland

Hillekens

Buist

Horváth

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Higher parent-child relationship quality has been associated with less internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. However, it remained less clear whether these associations are universal or depend on the country under investigation. Furthermore, fathers are still understudied, even though there is increasing evidence of their important role in early adolescent development. Our study compared the association of mother-child as well as father-child relationship quality with early adolescents' problem behavior in four culturally different countries, namely Hungary (N = 293; M age = 11.22; 53% boys), the Netherlands (N = 242; M age = 11.20; 48% boys), India (N = 230; M age = 10.68; 61% boys), and Iceland (N = 261; M age = 10.90; 53% boys). Early adolescents filled out questionnaires in their classroom, assessing warmth and conflict with fathers and mothers and internalizing and externalizing problem behavior. Stepwise multi-group path analysis demonstrated no cross-cultural differences in associations between quality of the parent-child relationship and problem behavior. We did not find any effects of maternal or paternal warmth. However, across samples conflict with mothers was associated with more internalizing and externalizing problem behavior, and conflict with fathers was associated with more externalizing problem behavior. Our findings highlight the need to target conflict with both fathers and mothers in interventions across different countries, especially when addressing externalizing problem behavior.

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Self-report distortions of puffing topography in daily smokers

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Comparison between self-reported smoking habits and daily ad-libitum smoking topography in a group of Korean smokers

Comparison between self-reported smoking habits and daily ad-libitum smoking topography in a group of Korean smokers

Understanding the consequences of education inequality on cardiovascular disease: mendelian randomisation study

Parent‐early adolescent relationship quality and problem behavior in Hungary, the Netherlands, India, and Iceland

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