The objective of this study was to determine the two-year predictors of current smoking (smoked one or more times in the past year) and of ever smoking (lifetime use of cigarettes) among grade 4 students in multiethnic, low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in Montreal. Baseline and two-year follow-up data were collected from 501 children (54.3% girls) who, at baseline, were never-smokers. At the two-year follow-up, 22.0% reported ever smoking, including 7.6% who were current smokers. Gender-specific multivariate logistic regression analyses identified friends smoking (odds ratio (OR) = 3.0 95% confidence interval (1.2--7.1)) and sibling smoking (OR = 6.6 (1.7--22.2)) as independent predictors of ever smoking among boys. Friends' smoking (OR = 4.7 (2.0--10.7)) and school were predictors of ever smoking among girls. Parental smoking also predicted ever smoking (OR = 4.3 (1.6--11.9)) among girls born in Canada only. The only predictor of current smoking among boys was friends' smoking. Predictors of current smoking among girls included Canadian family origin.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30714 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Numata, Yuka. |
| Contributors | O'Loughlin, Jennifer (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001740647, proquestno: MQ64418, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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