Association of cancer information seeking behavior with cigarette smoking and E-cigarette use among U.S. adults by education attainment level: A multi-year cross-sectional analysis from a nationally representative sample in 2017-2020

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2023

Subject Area

Humans; Adult; Adolescent; Young Adult; Cigarette Smoking; Cross-Sectional Studies; Information Seeking Behavior; Vaping; Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems; Educational Status; Neoplasms (epidemiology)

Abstract

Little is known about the association of cancer information seeking behavior with cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use. A multi-year cross-sectional analysis using a pooled data of the Health Information National Trends Survey 5, Cycles 1-4 (2017-2020) was conducted. To examine the association of cancer information seeking behavior with current cigarette smoking (currently smoke every day/some days among individuals who smoked 100+ cigarettes in lifetime) and e-cigarette use (currently use every day/some days among lifetime users) in nationally representative U.S. adults, we conducted weighted multiple logistic regression analysis, adjusting for sex, race/ethnicity, age, obese status, depressed mood, cancer diagnosis history, metropolitan status, and survey year. The regression models were stratified by education level (

Publication Title

Preventive medicine

Volume

172

First Page

107550

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107550

PubMed ID

37210044

E-ISSN

1096-0260

Language

eng

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