Developmental trajectories of tobacco use and risk factors from adolescence to emerging young adulthood: a population-based panel study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence to young adulthood is a critical developmental period that determines lifelong patterns of tobacco use. We examined the longitudinal trajectories of tobacco use, and risk factors for its use, and explored the association between the trajectories of mobile phone dependency and smoking throughout the life-course among adolescents and young adults.

Methods

Data of 1,723 subjects (853 boys and 870 girls) were obtained from six waves of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (mean age = 13.9-19.9 years). To identify trajectories of smoking and mobile phone dependency, group-based trajectory modelling (GBTM) was conducted. A multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the characteristics of the trajectory groups.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Kim SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425982 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature