Risk factors associated with subsequent initiation of cigarettes and e-cigarettes in adolescence: A structural equation modeling approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous youth tobacco research has identified multiple correlated risk factors for initiation of cigarette and e-cigarette use; whether these factors are independently associated with initiation is not known, due to challenges with disentangling the independent effects of these correlated risk factors.

Methods

Students in 11^th/12^th grade enrolled in the Southern California Children's Health Study were surveyed in 2014 (baseline) and again in 2015 (N = 1553). Structural equation models (SEM) were developed to investigate associations of susceptibility, marketing, and the social environment (as latent factors), and other tobacco use at baseline with cigarette or e-cigarette initiation between baseline and follow-up. Analyses were restricted to

SUBMITTER: Kintz N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6980983 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature