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Intervention effects on tobacco use in Arab and non-Arab American adolescents.
- Source :
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Addictive behaviors [Addict Behav] 2010 Jan; Vol. 35 (1), pp. 46-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Aug 21. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- A quasi-experimental design was used to test a modified Project Towards No Tobacco (TNT) use program on cigarette smoking in 380 Arab American and 236 non-Arab American 9th graders in the Midwest. Tenth grade Non-Arab American students given the intervention as 9th graders were 23% less likely to experiment (Odds Ratio=1.31, 95% CI: 1.05, 1.64) or to have smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days (Odd Ratio=1.43 times, 95% CI: 1.03, 2.01) compared to Arab American youth. Arab American students reported greater experimentation with water pipe smoking than cigarettes (38% vs. 22%), and more current (16% vs. 6%) and regular (7% vs. 3%) use of water pipes than cigarettes, respectively. The intervention designed to focus on cigarette smoking had non-significant effects on water pipe smoking. These findings provide support for a school-based intervention revised to focus on prevention as well as cessation and to be culturally consistent. They also call for further research and intervention tailoring to address the problem of water pipe smoking in a growing Arab American adolescent population.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Cohort Studies
Female
Health Promotion methods
Humans
Male
Middle East ethnology
Midwestern United States epidemiology
Patient Education as Topic methods
Pilot Projects
Program Evaluation
Smoking ethnology
Students
Surveys and Questionnaires
Arabs ethnology
Smoking epidemiology
Smoking Cessation methods
Smoking Prevention
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-6327
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Addictive behaviors
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19767152
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.07.005