Ellickson Phyllis L, Orlando Maria, Tucker Joan S, Klein David J
RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2004 Feb;94(2):293-9. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.2.293.
We used data gathered from 6259 youths between the ages of 13 and 23 years to compare trends in smoking among 4 racial/ethnic groups.
We weighted trend data to represent baseline respondent characteristics and evaluated these data with linear contrasts derived from multiple regression analyses.
Although African Americans exhibited higher initiation rates than Whites, they exhibited consistently lower rates of regular smoking than both Whites and Hispanics. This seeming anomaly was explained by African Americans' lower rates of transition to regular smoking and greater tendency to quit. Racial/ethnic disparities were accounted for by differences in pro-smoking influences.
Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in smoking may require reducing differences in the psychosocial factors that encourage smoking.
我们使用从6259名年龄在13至23岁之间的年轻人收集的数据，比较4个种族/族裔群体的吸烟趋势。
我们对趋势数据进行加权，以代表基线受访者特征，并使用多元回归分析得出的线性对比来评估这些数据。
尽管非裔美国人的开始吸烟率高于白人，但他们的经常吸烟率始终低于白人和西班牙裔。这种看似异常的现象可以通过非裔美国人向经常吸烟转变的比率较低以及更大的戒烟倾向来解释。吸烟的种族/族裔差异是由促吸烟影响因素的差异造成的。
减少吸烟方面的种族/族裔差异可能需要减少鼓励吸烟的心理社会因素的差异。
