Department of Public and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
Department of Public and Community Health, Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
J Cosmet Dermatol. 2022 Feb;21(2):720-728. doi: 10.1111/jocd.14119. Epub 2021 Apr 9.
Tattooing is becoming an increasingly common trend mainly but not merely among the youth. However, the choice of ink body art is associated with an increase of dermatological complications.
To assess young persons' health knowledge and motives toward tattooing.
The main instrument used was an online structured questionnaire with scaling and dichotomous questions, consisting of three components: (a) the participants' sociodemographic profile, (b) health knowledge assessment, (c) motives toward or against tattooing. Simple univariate techniques and multiple logistic regression were used to data analysis. Two logistic models were developed having as dependent variable whether the respondents have or would like to have a tattoo. The independent variables in the models were sociodemographic characteristics of participants and three variables concerning respondents' health knowledge and motives on tattooing.
The study sample amounted to 629 young adults living in Athens, the capital city of Greece. The prevailing age group among tattooed persons was 19-25 years old (69.5%), with females being more likely to be tattooed than males. Among tattooed participants, knowledge in specific health complications appeared high, while in other potential complications was particularly low. The main motives identified were ideology/message and aesthetics/fashion (77% in total). Quite interesting, participants with medium and high health knowledge level showed, respectively 50%, and three times higher probability of having tattoos compared to low level. Only 16.2% of the tattooed participants regarded tattoo as dangerous to health (p < 0.0005).
The likelihood of acquiring ink body art is increasing critically among young adults. Even though this tendency is accompanied with adequate levels of knowledge concerning health hazards, systematic health education programs for more informed and safe choices are needed to be implemented, with particular emphasis on young people.
纹身正成为一种日益普遍的趋势，主要但不仅限于年轻人。然而，纹身颜料的选择与皮肤科并发症的增加有关。
评估年轻人对纹身的健康知识和动机。
主要使用的仪器是一个带有刻度和二分问题的在线结构化问卷，由三个部分组成：（a）参与者的社会人口学概况，（b）健康知识评估，（c）对纹身的赞成或反对的动机。简单的单变量技术和多逻辑回归用于数据分析。建立了两个逻辑模型，其因变量是受访者是否有或想要纹身。模型中的自变量是参与者的社会人口学特征以及与受访者健康知识和纹身动机相关的三个变量。
研究样本包括居住在希腊首都雅典的 629 名年轻人。纹身者的主要年龄组为 19-25 岁（69.5%），女性纹身者多于男性。在纹身参与者中，特定健康并发症方面的知识似乎很高，而在其他潜在并发症方面则特别低。确定的主要动机是意识形态/信息和美学/时尚（共计 77%）。有趣的是，具有中等和高水平健康知识的参与者分别有 50%和三倍的可能性有纹身，而低水平的则没有。只有 16.2%的纹身参与者认为纹身对健康有危险（p<0.0005）。
年轻人中纹身的趋势在急剧增加。尽管这种趋势伴随着对健康危害的适当知识水平，但需要实施系统的健康教育计划，以做出更明智和安全的选择，特别要关注年轻人。
