Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, 314 Kimball Tower, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA.
Nicotine Tob Res. 2011 Feb;13(2):113-9. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntq218. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
We explored how the relation between psychological distress and smoking behavior differed as a function of race/ethnicity of respondents to a representative national survey.
Data from the 2007 Health Information National Trends Survey were analyzed. Participants reported experiences of psychological distress in the past 30 days, race/ethnicity, current smoking status (smoker/nonsmoker), and number of cigarettes smoked per day. Logistic regression and linear regression analyses were used to examine the influence of race, distress, and their interaction on smoking behavior using survey weighting techniques to account for sampling strategy and nonresponse.
For current smoking status, there was a significant interaction between race and psychological distress. Follow-up analyses indicated that psychological distress was related to smoking status for White but not for Black or Hispanic respondents. Similar results were found for number of cigarettes smoked per day among current smokers.
The results suggest that the often-reported association between psychological distress and smoking is relatively specific to White individuals. The relation does not appear to characterize either Black or Hispanic individuals.
我们探讨了在一项具有代表性的全国性调查中，受访者的种族/民族如何影响心理困扰与吸烟行为之间的关系。
对 2007 年健康信息国家趋势调查的数据进行了分析。参与者报告了过去 30 天内的心理困扰经历、种族/民族、当前吸烟状况（吸烟者/非吸烟者）以及每天吸烟的数量。使用调查加权技术来考虑抽样策略和无回应，采用逻辑回归和线性回归分析来检验种族、困扰及其相互作用对吸烟行为的影响。
对于当前吸烟状况，种族和心理困扰之间存在显著的交互作用。进一步的分析表明，心理困扰与白种人吸烟状况有关，但与黑种人或西班牙裔无关。对于当前吸烟者每天吸烟的数量也有类似的结果。
结果表明，心理困扰与吸烟之间的关联通常仅适用于白种人，这一关联似乎不适用于黑种人或西班牙裔。
