Patterns of Tobacco Product Use and Correlates Among Adults in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study: A Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Introduction:As the tobacco industry and market evolves, there is a growing need to understand the patterns of use of tobacco products and how they relate to demographics, dependency, withdrawal, and quit behavior. Methods:We analyzed data from wave 1 of the PATH Study consisting of 14856 individuals. Current users were defined as consuming at least 1 of 10 tobacco products. We performed a latent class analysis (LCA) to identify patterns of tobacco use. We used multinomial regression analysis to explore the association between these patterns with covariates representing socioeconomic status dependence/addiction, past quit attempts, and withdrawal severity. Results:We identified four groups of current tobacco users with distinct profiles: (1) 61% of the sample were identified as cigarette-o

SUBMITTER: Kypriotakis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093445 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature