E-cigarette Use and Beliefs Among Urban Public High School Students in North Carolina

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The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine

J.Adolesc.Health

Jul

United States

1879-1972; 1054-139X

PMID: 26095408

eng

Journal Article; Observational Study; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; IM

10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.03.018 [doi]

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PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence, attitudes, and risk factors associated with electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among high school students in tobacco growing state. METHODS: A 47-item e-cigarette questionnaire modeled after Monitoring the Future with additional information about demographics, adolescent and family nicotine use, and school and health care interventions was designed, piloted, and administered to public high school students (N = 3,298) in May 2013, in an urban county in North Carolina. RESULTS: Completers (2,769/3,298) were aged 16.4 years (standard deviation +/- 1.4) with 48.9% males and 43.9% African-American, 38% white, and 4.6% Hispanics. The majority (77.3%) knew about e-cigarettes; 15.2% reported that they had tried an e-cigarette, and 60% reported that e-cigarettes were safe or had minimal health hazards. Only 5.4% reported that schools had offered information about e-cigarette use. One quarter (24.9%) reported ever cigarette smoking, and 13.3% reported ever using smokeless tobacco. E-cigarette use was positively associated with older age, tobacco use, male gender, Caucasian race, mother's e-cigarette use, biological parents' tobacco use, and lower academic performance, whereas negatively associated with having a mother who never used e-cigarettes, not knowing any e-cigarette users, and living with mother (p

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc

Anand,V., McGinty,K.L., O'Brien,K., Guenthner,G., Hahn,E., Martin,C.A.

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Electronic address: VAnandAiims23@gmail.com.; Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, D

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2015