Disparities in trajectories of cigarette and E-cigarette use across sexual orientation groups of young adult men and women in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Limited research has examined differences in cigarette/e-cigarette use trajectories among specific subgroups of sexual minority (SM) young adult (SMYA) men and women.

Methods

Repeated measures latent profile analyses (RMLPAs) examined past 6-month cigarette and e-cigarette use trajectories across 5 waves of data (2018-2020) among men (n = 1235; M_age = 25.56, SD = 4.85; 8.0% bisexual, 12.7% gay; 36.4% racial/ethnic minority) and women (n = 1574; M_age = 24.64, SD = 4.72; 23.8% bisexual, 5.9% lesbian; 35.3% racial/ethnic minority) residing in 6 US metropolitan statistical areas. Multinomial logistic regressions examined associations among sexual orientation (bisexual, gay/lesbian, heterosexual) and tobacco use trajectories among men and women,

SUBMITTER: Romm KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10674053 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature