Gender, Race, Ethnicity & Smoking Initiation & Cessation

描述(由申请人提供)： 在美国一项基于人群的纵向调查中，研究了吸烟的风险和弹性，以了解为什么种族和少数民族在青春期对吸烟更有弹性，但到了中年，他们报告的吸烟风险更高，戒烟率更低。在从青春期到成年期的过渡过程中，以及在中年过程中，研究人员考虑了吸烟和社会角色之间的关系，以确定这种关系是否会被不同的成人社交时间和顺序所混淆。过去的研究文件表明，不同种族和民族背景的人，以及男性和女性，吸烟风险和弹性的年龄模式各不相同。过去的研究也证明，社会角色的时机和顺序因种族、民族和性别而异。目前还没有研究探讨社会角色的年龄模式和吸烟年龄模式之间的关系，或者将这些与种族/民族和性别差异联系起来。美国国家药物滥用研究所赞助的《国家青年纵向调查》(1979年)补充资料中的二十多年数据将被用来模拟吸烟和社会角色转变的相互依存的过程，并进行动态、随机影响的危险回归。这项研究将通过结合吸烟的决定因素和后果，并指导公共卫生从业者预测当前和新出现的弱势群体的需求，为实现2010年健康人做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Risk and resiliency to tobacco smoking are examined in a US population-based, longitudinal survey to understand why racial and ethnic minorities are more resilient to smoking initiation in adolescence, and yet by midlife, they report higher risk to smoking and lower rates of cessation. The relationship between smoking and social roles is considered during the transition from adolescence into adulthood, and through the course of midlife, to determine whether this relationship is confounded by different timing and sequencing of adult socials. Past research documents that the age pattern of risk and resilience to smoking varies for people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as for men and women. Past research also documents that the timing and sequencing of social roles vary by race, ethnicity and gender. No known research has examined the relationship between the age patterns of social roles and the age patterns of smoking, or related these to racial/ethnic and gender differences. Over twenty years of data from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse sponsored supplements to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) will be employed to model the interdependent processes of smoking and social role transitions with dynamic, random effects hazard regression. This study will contribute to the achievement of Healthy People 2010 by contextualizing the determinants and consequences of smoking and guiding public health practitioners to anticipate the needs of current and emerging vulnerable populations.