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RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING INITIATION AMONG CHINESE
ADOLESCENTS: A MATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDY
by
Jie Yao
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF SCIENCE
(APPILED BIOSTATISTICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Jie Yao
Object Description
| Title | Risk factors associated with smoking initiation among Chinese adolescents: a matched case-control study |
| Author | Yao, Jie |
| Author email | jiey@usc.edu; yaojay@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Applied Biostatistics & Epidemiology |
| School | Keck School of Medicine |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-06-18 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-08-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Chou, Chih-Ping Azen, Stanley Paul |
| Advisor (committee member) | Unge, Jennifer |
| Abstract | A longitudinal school-based smoking prevention trail with a social normative approach developed in the western culture was implemented with 7th grade students in Wuhan, China. A nested matched case-control study was used to examine the risk factors and their associations with adolescents' smoking initiation, and whether the intervention effect on follow-up smoking behaviors is dependent on different levels of baseline risk factors. Data were obtained from 817 baseline non-smoking 7th grade students in Wuhan. Both conditional and unconditional logistic regression analyses were performed to assess the associations of various risk factors with smoking initiation. Non-smoking students who had high intention to smoke, negative knowledge toward to smoking addiction and low smoking refusal self-efficacy were more likely to become smokers at the follow-up survey. We did not detect the effect of the intervention program in preventing smoking initiation. Neither did we find the interaction effect of intervention program with individual's baseline risk factor profile. Future tobacco prevention interventions should focus on reducing smoking intention, empowering non-smoking adolescents with the self-efficacy and knowledge on the harm of nicotine to prevent smoking initiation. |
| Keyword | risk factors; smoking initiation; Chinese; a matched case-control study |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Wuhan |
| Geographic subject (country) | China |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1531 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Yao, Jie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Yao-2303 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume14/etd-Yao-2303-0.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING INITIATION AMONG CHINESE ADOLESCENTS: A MATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDY by Jie Yao A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (APPILED BIOSTATISTICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Jie Yao |
