Smoking Prevalence Among Users of Primary Healthcare Units in Brazil: The Role of Religiosity

Martinez, Edson Zangiacomi; Giglio, Flávia Masili; Terada, Natalia Akemi Yamada; Silva, Anderson Soares da; Zucoloto, Miriane Lucindo

doi:10.1007/s10943-017-0389-x

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“…Research in the USA, for example, has linked greater religiosity with lower levels of smoking among both adults (Whooley et al 2002; Garcia et al 2013; Hayward et al 2016; Bowie et al 2017) and younger people (Alexander et al 2016; Nonnemaker et al 2006; Amey et al 1996; Wallace and Forman 1998). Elsewhere similar conclusions have been drawn for young people in Central America and the Dominican Republic (Chen et al 2004), Hungary (Kovacs et al 2011), Switzerland (Becker et al 2015), Iran (Ameri et al 2016) and Jordan (Alzyoud et al 2015), for adults in Brazil (Martinez et al 2017), mainland China (Wang et al 2015; Wang and Jang 2016), Zambia and Malawi (Pampel 2005) and South Africa (Prinsloo et al 2008), and for pregnant women in San Luis, Brazil (Barbosa et al 2015). Analogously, adults in South Korea have been found to be more likely to quit smoking if they are religious (Myung et al 2012).…”

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Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

2017

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While factors affecting smoking are well documented, the role of religion has received little attention. This national study aims to assess the extent to which religious affiliation is associated with current-smoking and ever-smoking, controlling for age, sex, ethnicity and socio-economic status. Variations between adult and youth populations are examined using secondary analysis of individual-level data from 5 years of the Health Survey for England for adult (aged[20, n = 39,837) and youth (aged 16-20, n = 2355) samples. Crude prevalence statistics are contrasted with binary logistic models for current-smoking and eversmoking in the adult and youth samples. Analyses suggest that Muslims smoke substantially less than Christians. Highest levels of smoking characterise people not professing any religion. Associations between smoking and the Muslim religion attenuate to statistical insignificance in the face of ethnic and socio-economic factors. An association between smoking and the absence of a religious affiliation is sustained. An understanding of the association between smoking and religion is essential to the development of tobacco control programmes.

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Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

2017

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“…As evidenced in other previous Brazilian studies 9,19,20,[34][35][36] , individuals affiliated to Evangelical religious groups are less susceptible to hazardous consumption of alcohol when compared with individuals from other religious groups. In fact, people from Evangelical backgrounds tend to have a proper lifestyle and they are more disposed to assume restrictive moral attitudes, including disapproval of smoking and drinking 37 .…”

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Religiosity and patterns of alcohol consumption among users of primary healthcare facilities in Brazil

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Background A number of studies have been reported on the role of religiosity in health beliefs and behaviors. Objective The objective of this cross-sectional study is to examine the association between religious involvement and patterns of alcohol consumption in a large representative sample of users of primary healthcare facilities in Ribeirão Preto, Southeast Brazil. Method Data were collected through personal interviews. Religiosity was measured using the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) and the alcohol consumption was measured using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) questionnaire. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to evaluate the associations between the participant characteristics, the AUDIT risk levels, and the drinking groups. Results The sample was composed of 841 women with a mean age of 39.5 years old and 214 men with a mean age of 45.1 years old. A significant relationship between patterns of alcohol consumption and the multiple dimensions of religiosity was detected, such as religious affiliation, religious practices, self-perception of the level of religiosity and the ORA, NORA and IR components of DUREL. Lower levels of drinking risk were detected among religious individuals and among those who practice their religions compared to individuals who have no religion and/or non-practicing individuals, respectively. Conclusion A lifestyle motivated by religious concerns is associated with alcohol use habits among the Brazilian users of the public healthcare facilities.

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“…Several facts lead one to hypothesize that smokers are less likely to participate in charitable giving and give lesser amounts than nonsmokers. First, nonsmokers compared with smokers are more likely to be religious (Martinez, Giglio, Terada, da Silva, & Zucoloto, 2017; Roff et al, 2005), and religious people are more likely to participate in giving (Bekkers & Wiepking, 2011; Brown & Ferris, 2007) and give higher amounts (Bekkers & Wiepking, 2011). Second, smokers report lower level of indicators of social capital such as participation in organizational activities (Islam, Folland, & Kaarbøe, 2017; Siahpush et al, 2006) and trust in others (Hassanzadeh et al, 2016; Islam et al, 2017; Siahpush et al, 2006).…”

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Smoking Households Give Less to Charity

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This study had two aims: (a) to assess, among households in the United States, the association between spending money on cigarettes and participation in charitable giving, and between spending money on cigarettes and amount spent on charitable giving, and (b) to assess whether the association between smoking and charitable giving is mediated by religiosity, social capital, cognitive aptitude, and happiness. To address these aims, we used data from Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey and Midlife in the United States Survey. The analyses revealed that households that spend money on cigarettes are less likely to participate in charitable giving. Furthermore, among households who do give to charity, smoking households give a lesser amount than others do. Religiosity, social capital, cognitive aptitude, and happiness do not appear to mediate the relationship between smoking and charitable giving.

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Smoking Prevalence Among Users of Primary Healthcare Units in Brazil: The Role of Religiosity

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Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data

Religiosity and patterns of alcohol consumption among users of primary healthcare facilities in Brazil

Smoking Households Give Less to Charity

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