Physician Advice to Adolescents About Smoking: Who Gets Advised and Who Benefits Most?

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• 作者：Ashley H. Clawson ; Ph.D.^a ; ^{ashley_clawson@brown.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Leslie A. Robinson ; Ph.D.^b ; Jeanelle S. Ali ; M.S.^b
• 关键词：Physicians ; Communication ; Adolescent ; Smoking
• 刊名：Journal of Adolescent Health
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：58
• 期：2
• 页码：195-201
• 全文大小：450 K

文摘

The Clinical Practice Guidelines instruct physicians to ask their patients about smoking and to advise against tobacco use. Physicians are urged especially to attend to racial minorities and teens because of these groups' increased susceptibility to smoking. Research on race and physician advice against smoking has produced contradictory findings. The purpose of this study is to clarify the relationships between physician communication about tobacco, race, and smoking among adolescents.

<h4 id="absSec_2">Methodsh4>

This cross-sectional retrospective study explored (1) racial differences in rates of receiving physician communication and (2) whether the relationship between physician communication and smoking among adolescents was moderated by race. Multiple measures of smoking status were used (e.g., intentions to quit, quit attempts, quits, relapse status). We used a large (N = 5,154), predominately African-American (82.9%) sample of 11th graders.

<h4 id="absSec_3">Resultsh4>

Regular smokers were more likely to be screened about smoking. African Americans were more frequently advised against tobacco than Caucasians. Among African Americans, nonsmokers were most likely to be both screened and advised; among Caucasians, regular were most likely to be screened and advised. Overall, physician intervention was associated with greater benefits for young African Americans, including fewer intentions to smoke, greater likelihood of quitting, and less relapse.

<h4 id="absSec_4">Conclusionsh4>

Physician communication about smoking may hold particular promise for African-American teens, reducing health disparities because of racial differences in smoking-related mortality and morbidity. Physicians should be encouraged to screen and advise all young people about tobacco, regardless of race or smoking status.