• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Predictability of smoking onset among Romanian adolescents
  • Beteiligte: Lotrean, Lucia Maria; Mesters, Ilse; Ionut, Carmen; de Vries, Hein
  • Erschienen: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014
  • Erschienen in: Slovenian Journal of Public Health
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.2478/sjph-2014-0009
  • ISSN: 1854-2476; 0351-0026
  • Schlagwörter: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> Objectives: Research identifying reliable and country-specific predictors of smoking is needed in order to develop effective adolescent smoking prevention programmes. The objective of this study was to assess the cognitive and socio-demographic factors associated with smoking onset among Romanian teenagers, using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data. </jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Methods: </jats:bold>The data were obtained from a two-wave, one-year longitudinal study carried out among 316 senior high school non-smokers from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Questionnaires assessed smoking behaviour, attitudes, social influence, self-efficacy and intention regarding smoking (motivational variables) as well as different sociodemographic features. </jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Results: </jats:bold>The cross-sectional analyses showed that socio-demographics and motivational variables were strongly associated with smoking behaviour; the explained variance was 76%. The longitudinal analyses revealed that four variables explained 33% of the variance in change of status from non-smoking to regular smoking over a period of one year. Regular smoking onset after one year was predicted by baseline low self-efficacy in refraining from smoking in different situations, having more smoking friends and playing truant from school. Having a brother was a protective factor. </jats:p> <jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion: </jats:bold>The results suggest that smoking prevention programmes in Romania should strengthen self-efficacy beliefs and resistance against peer modelling and help Romanian young people to develop skills and action plans to cope with pressure to smoke and challenging situations.</jats:p>
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