Klesges R C, Elliott V E, Robinson L A
University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Tob Control. 1997 Summer;6(2):89-94. doi: 10.1136/tc.6.2.89.
To evaluate the prevalence of weight concerns and smoking for body weight reasons as a function of race and gender.
A questionnaire measuring a number of factors thought to be predictive of smoking was administered.
The Memphis (Tennessee) school system.
Participants were 6961 seventh-grade students (mean age 13 years). This population consisted of 80.8% black children, 16.5% white children, and 2.7% of other ethnic origins.
Weight concerns were assessed using items from a restraint scale. Students were questioned regarding their smoking status, beliefs that smoking controls body weight, and their own weight-control smoking behaviour.
Dietary restraint interacted with race in that, whereas white girls scored the highest on dietary restraint, black boys scored higher on dietary restraint than white boys. Almost 40% of subjects at this school level believed that smoking controls their body weight. Of the regular smokers, 12% indicated they have smoked to control their weight, with white girls endorsing this belief significantly more than other respondents.
The propensity to smoke for weight control reasons, previously described by other researchers among white females of college and high-school age, was also found among this sample of students of junior high school age.
评估因种族和性别而异的体重相关担忧及出于控制体重目的吸烟的流行情况。
采用一份调查问卷，该问卷测量了一系列被认为可预测吸烟行为的因素。
田纳西州孟菲斯市的学校系统。
参与者为6961名七年级学生（平均年龄13岁）。该群体中80.8%为黑人儿童，16.5%为白人儿童，2.7%为其他种族。
使用来自节食量表的项目评估体重相关担忧。询问学生的吸烟状况、吸烟能控制体重的信念以及他们自己控制体重的吸烟行为。
节食与种族存在交互作用，白人女孩在节食方面得分最高，而黑人男孩在节食方面得分高于白人男孩。在这个学校层面，近40%的受试者认为吸烟能控制体重。在经常吸烟的人中，12%表示他们吸烟是为了控制体重，白人女孩比其他受访者更认同这一信念。
在这个初中年龄的学生样本中，也发现了此前其他研究人员在大学和高中年龄白人女性中所描述的出于控制体重目的吸烟的倾向。
