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School connectedness and daily smoking among boys and girls: the influence of parental smoking norms (2005)
Auteur(s) :
M. RASMUSSEN ;
M. T. DAMSGAARD ;
B. E. HOLSTEIN ;
POULSEN L. H. ;
P. DUE
Article en page(s) :
607-612
Refs biblio. :
42
Domaine :
Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
TABAC
;
MILIEU SCOLAIRE
;
SEXE
;
CONTROLE SOCIAL
;
RELATION PARENT ENFANT
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
Thésaurus géographique
DANEMARK
Note générale :
European Journal of Public Health, 2005, 15, (6), 607-612
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
Background: The objective was to test whether an association between school connectedness and smoking exists among Danish school children, and if so, to examine whether parental smoking attitude and parental smoking behaviour influenced this association. Methods: Data were collected by the Danish contribution to the cross-national study Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) 1998. Analyses were performed on questionnaire-based data from 1537 students at grade nine from a random sample of schools in Denmark. Results: An independent inverse association was found between school connectedness and smoking among both boys and girls. Parents' attitude to their children's smoking significantly modified this association among boys. Among girls the modifying effect was less marked. Neither among boys nor girls did parental smoking behaviour significantly modify the association between school connectedness and smoking, although a modifying tendency was observed among girls. Conclusions: The smoking behaviour of Danish adolescents may be influenced by complicated interactions of varying sets of experienced smoking norms, and any research project or preventive programme focusing on the influence of school life on adolescent smoking behaviour needs to consider the family smoking norms. Additionally, the results stress the important role of gender by indicating that the smoking behaviour of girls may be more sensitive to restricting social influences than the smoking behaviour of boys.
ENGLISH :
Background: The objective was to test whether an association between school connectedness and smoking exists among Danish school children, and if so, to examine whether parental smoking attitude and parental smoking behaviour influenced this association. Methods: Data were collected by the Danish contribution to the cross-national study Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) 1998. Analyses were performed on questionnaire-based data from 1537 students at grade nine from a random sample of schools in Denmark. Results: An independent inverse association was found between school connectedness and smoking among both boys and girls. Parents' attitude to their children's smoking significantly modified this association among boys. Among girls the modifying effect was less marked. Neither among boys nor girls did parental smoking behaviour significantly modify the association between school connectedness and smoking, although a modifying tendency was observed among girls. Conclusions: The smoking behaviour of Danish adolescents may be influenced by complicated interactions of varying sets of experienced smoking norms, and any research project or preventive programme focusing on the influence of school life on adolescent smoking behaviour needs to consider the family smoking norms. Additionally, the results stress the important role of gender by indicating that the smoking behaviour of girls may be more sensitive to restricting social influences than the smoking behaviour of boys.
Affiliation :
Univ. of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Blegdamsvej 3, DK-2200 Copenhagen. Email : M.Rasmussen@socmed.ku.dk
Danemark. Denmark.
Danemark. Denmark.