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COMPARISON OF SENIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SMOKING BEHAVIOR BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREA IN CHINA
by
Yan Zhou
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
(BIOSTATISTICS)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Yan Zhou
Object Description
| Title | Comparison of senior middle school students' smoking behavior between urban and rural area in China |
| Author | Zhou, Yan |
| Author email | zhouyan@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Biostatistics |
| School | Keck School of Medicine |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-07-02 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-07-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) |
Azen, Stanley Paul Chou,Chih-Ping |
| Advisor (committee member) | Unger, Jennifer B. |
| Abstract | This study examined the smoking behavior among 3818 middle school students (9th graders') in either urban or rural area across four geographic regions in China. After adjusting for age, peer and parental smoking, rural boys demonstrate more severe smoking behaviors compared to urban boys (odds ratio [OR] =1.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] =1.36-2.62 for lifetime smoking; OR =1.28, 95% CI =0.93-1.77 for past month smoking; and OR =2.04, 95% CI =1.27-3.26 for a lifetime whole cigarette use). Rural girls, on the other hand, were less likely to smoke than urban girls. Smoking initiation age was not statistically significantly different between rural and urban students. Across the four regions, the students in the southwest region had a higher smoking prevalence than those in the other three regions. Our findings suggest that rural boys and urban girls, especially those in the southwest region, are important populations for tobacco control interventions. |
| Keyword | smoking behavior; middle school student |
| 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 |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m663 |
| Rights | Zhou, Yan |
| 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-Zhou-20070725 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Zhou-20070725.pdf |
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| Full text | COMPARISON OF SENIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SMOKING BEHAVIOR BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREA IN CHINA by Yan Zhou 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 (BIOSTATISTICS) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Yan Zhou |
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