Reliability of children's self-reported cigarette smoking

Article Abstract:

There is evidence that the younger the age at which youth begin smoking cigarettes, there is increased risk of tobacco addiction during adolescence and adulthood. The reliability of self-reported cigarette use in a longitudinal study of elementary school children is examined. It considers certain measures of youth smoking such as the Monitoring the Future Study, Youth Risk Behavior Survey and National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. It is suggested that children's self-reports are extremely consistent.

Children, Child health

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Smoking and cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: a pilot study

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A study assess the impact of smoking on the cognitive deficits of schizophrenia with data from 88 chronic schizophrenic outpatients. The number of cigarettes corresponded to the severity of cognitive symptoms in the Positive and Negative Syndrome scale. Smoking may be helping patients deal with cognitive deficits by increasing the dopaminergic neurotransmission in the brain's prefrontal area.

Smokers, Schizophrenics

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The applicability of the theory of planned behavior to the intention to quit smoking across workplaces in Southern Taiwan

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The theory of planned behavior(TPB) to quit smoking across workplaces was tested in three companies in Southern Taiwan. One served to build the model and two others to cross-check the findings. The learning sample worked well with other samples from the same organization but adding past behavior and importance of quitting to the TPB model made it more across workplaces.

Taiwan, Smoking cessation programs, Smoking cessation

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