Relationship between happiness and tobacco smoking among high school students

Epidemiology and Health

Parvin Sarbakhsh¹  Maryam Ataeiasl¹  Masoumeh Anbarlouei¹  Christoph Augner²  Hossein Dadashzadeh³  Asghar Mohammadpoorasl⁴ 

[1] Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran;Institute for Human Resources Research in Health Care, University Clinics of the Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria;Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran;Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran;

关键词: Cigarette smoking;    Hookah smoking;    Adolescents;    Happiness;    Iran;   

DOI  :  10.4178/epih.e2018009

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVES Recent research has described negative relationship between happiness and habitual smoking among adolescents. No study of this relationship has been conducted among Iranian adolescents. The aim of the present study was to characterize the relationship between happiness and cigarette or hookah smoking among a sample of high school students. METHODS A sample of 1,161 10th-grade students in Tabriz (northwest Iran) was selected by multi-stage proportional cluster sampling. Participants completed a self-administered multiple-choice questionnaire including information on cigarette smoking, hookah smoking, happiness score, substance abuse, self-injury, general risk-taking behavior, attitudes towards smoking, socioeconomic information, and demographic characteristics. An ordinal logistic regression model was used for data analysis. RESULTS It was found that 5.9 and 5.0% of students were regular cigarette smokers and regular hookah smokers, respectively. After controlling for potential confounders, higher happiness scores were found to protect students against more advanced stages of cigarette smoking (odds ratio [OR], 0.98; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.97 to 0.99; p=0.013). However, no significant relationship was found between happiness scores and hookah smoking status (OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.97 to 1.02; p=0.523). CONCLUSIONS Happiness scores were associated with less advanced stages of habitual cigarette smoking among high school students. Our findings underscore the necessity of conducting longitudinal or interventional studies aiming to determine the effects of enhancing happiness on preventing the transition through the stages of cigarette and hookah smoking.

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