Predictive Validity of the Expanded Susceptibility to Smoke Index.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The susceptibility to smoking index can be improved as it only identifies one third of future adult smokers. Adding curiosity to this index may increase the identification of future smokers and improve the identification of effective prevention messages.

Methods

Analyses used data from the California Longitudinal Study of Smoking Transitions in Youth, for whom tobacco use behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs were assessed at 3 time points from age 12 through early adulthood. Logistic regressions were used to evaluate whether baseline curiosity about smoking was predictive of smoking during the 6-year follow-up period and whether curiosity about smoking provided evidence of incremental validity over existing measures of susceptibility to smoking.

Results

Compar

SUBMITTER: Strong DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4481694 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature