Wagner-Echeagaray F A, Schütz C G, Chilcoat H D, Anthony J C
Centros de Integracion Juvenil, Mexico City, Mexico.
Am J Public Health. 1994 Nov;84(11):1825-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.84.11.1825.
Epidemiologic data from three national surveys conducted in 1988, 1990, and 1991 were used to investigate the association between acculturation and use of crack cocaine among Hispanic Americans living in the United States. Poststratification and conditional logistic regression were used to hold constant shared aspects of neighborhood environment, age, sex, and education. The analyses showed a strong inverse relationship between degree of acculturation and crack smoking among Mexican Americans (relative odds = 0.12, 95% confidence interval = 0.04, 0.34) but not among other Hispanics in the study population. This observed variation within the US Hispanic American population deserves special attention in future research.
利用1988年、1990年和1991年进行的三项全国性调查的流行病学数据,研究居住在美国的西班牙裔美国人中文化适应与强效可卡因使用之间的关联。采用事后分层和条件逻辑回归来保持邻里环境、年龄、性别和教育等共同因素不变。分析显示,墨西哥裔美国人的文化适应程度与吸食强效可卡因之间存在强烈的负相关关系(相对比值=0.12,95%置信区间=0.04,0.34),但在研究人群中的其他西班牙裔中不存在这种关系。在美国西班牙裔人群中观察到的这种差异值得在未来的研究中特别关注。