Do researcher-derived classifications of youths’ smoking behavior correspond with youths’ characterizations of their behavior?
June 24th, 2009 Posted by: admin
Publication year: 2009
Source: Addictive Behaviors, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 May 2009
Chizimuzo T.C., Okoli , Pamela A., Ratner , Rebecca J., Haines , Kelli, Sullivan , Su-Er, Guo , …
Aims: To describe the categories employed by researchers to describe adolescents’ smoking behavior and to determine how these various categorizations compare with youths’ self-defined smoking status. Study selection: A search of the PubMed and Science Direct databases, limited to articles in the English language, published between January 2002 and November 2007. Data extraction: Employing a mixed methods approach, several categories of youths’ smoking status were obtained from a literature review and subsequently reproduced by using responses to detailed questionnaire items. Associations between the researcher-derived smoking categories (from the literature review) and the youths’ self-reported smoking status, from survey data, were determined. Results: The categories of smoking status,…
