Sociodemographic factors associated with smoking risk perception in adolescents in São Paulo, Brazil
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
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41(6): 546-549, Nov.-Dec. 2019. tab
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ABSTRACT
Objective:
We examined the sociodemographic factors associated with smoking risk perceptions (SRP) in youth living in two very different neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, Brazil a middle-class central area (Vila Mariana) and a poor outer-city area (Capão Redondo).Methods:
A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 180 public school-attending youth (all aged 12 years) and their parents. SRP was evaluated through self-reports. Weighted multinomial logistic regression was used to examine factors associated with SRP.Results:
Smoking was considered a high-risk behavior by 70.9% of adolescents. There were significant differences in SRP associated with socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal smoking status. Having a non-smoking mother was positively associated with perceiving smoking as having low to moderate risk versus no risk (OR=3.91 [95%CI 1.27-12.02]). Attending school in Capão Redondo was associated with perceiving smoking as having high risk compared to no risk (OR=3.00 [95%CI 1.11-8.12]), and low SES was negatively associated with perceiving at least some risk in smoking versus perceiving no risk in this behavior.Conclusions:
Youth whose mothers smoke appear to have lower SRP than those whose mothers do not smoke. Living in a poor outer-city area was associated with higher SRP.
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Main subject:
Parents
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Perception
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Risk-Taking
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Students
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Smoking
Type of study:
Etiology study
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Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Risk factors
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2019
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
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United States
Institution/Affiliation country:
Columbia University/US
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Departamento de Medicina Preventiva/BR
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Escola Paulista de Medicina, UNIFESP/BR
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