Revisiting the Relationship Between Acculturation and Smoking Cessation Among Mexican Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A well-established gender-differentiated association between acculturation and current smoking exists among Latino adults. There are far fewer studies on the potential influence of acculturation on smoking cessation, and extant findings are mixed.

Purpose

Using a multidimensional measure of acculturation, the current study examined the independent and interactive associations of gender and acculturation with smoking cessation among Mexican American smokers engaged in a quit attempt.

Methods

Using a latent variable modeling approach to repeated measures analysis, the independent and interaction effects of acculturation in two cultural directions (American and Mexican) were examined for their prospective associations with smoking abstinence. Interactions of a

SUBMITTER: Castro Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6226374 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature