Tackling smoking among out of school youth in South Africa: an analysis of friendship ties
SOURCE: Addictive Behaviors Reports
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.Desai, R.A.C.Ruiter, J.Schepers, S.P.Reddy, L.A.G.Mercken
KEYWORDS: ADDICTION, SMOKING, SOCIAL DROPOUT, TOBACCO USE
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10984
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14758
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14758
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.Desai, R.A.C.Ruiter, J.Schepers, S.P.Reddy, L.A.G.Mercken
KEYWORDS: ADDICTION, SMOKING, SOCIAL DROPOUT, TOBACCO USE
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10984
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14758
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14758
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Abstract
Friendships during adolescence play a significant role in the initiation and maintenance of tobacco use. Smoking behaviour among adolescent friends has not been explored among out of school youth (OSY) in South Africa. Out of school youth (OSY), described as those between 13 and 20 years old, have not completed their schooling and are not currently enrolled in school, are at greater risk for tobacco use. The main aim of this study is to examine whether the smoking behaviour of OSY is associated with that of their OSY friends. Respondent driven sampling was used to recruit OSY and their OSY friends. A mixed effects logistic regression with a random intercept across school-province combinations was used to analyse survey data. Race and gender were also incorporated into the analyses as effect moderators (n = 391). Results of this study confirm that cigarette smoking was common among OSY and their OSY friends, with 53.5% of the respondents smoking in the past month (SD = 0.44). When OSY friends were either all nonsmokers or half their friends were non-smokers, Coloured (mixed race) OSY were less likely to smoke compared to Black African and Other (mostly Asian descent) OSY. Cultural norms and values associated with the different race groups may play a role in the smoking behaviour of out of school youth friends. Understanding this relationship is useful for identifying those OSY that are vulnerable to the behaviours that place them at risk of tobacco related morbidity and mortality.-
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