Halonen, JI;
Pulakka, A;
Stenholm, S;
Pentti, J;
Kawachi, I;
Kivimäki, M;
Vahtera, J;
(2016)
Change in neighborhood disadvantage and change in smoking behaviors in adults: a longitudinal, within-individual study.
Epidemiology
, 27
(6)
pp. 803-809.
10.1097/EDE.0000000000000530.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Evidence for an association between neighborhood disadvantage and smoking is mixed and mainly based on cross-sectional studies. To shed light on the causality of this association we examined whether change in neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with within-individual change in smoking behaviors. METHODS: The study population comprised participants of the Finnish Public Sector study who reported a change in their smoking behavior between surveys in 2008/09 and 2012/13. We linked participants' residential addresses to a total population database on neighborhood disadvantage with 250 × 250m resolution. The outcome variables were changes in smoking status (being a smoker vs. not) as well as the intensity (heavy/moderate vs. light smoker). We used longitudinal case-crossover design, a method that accounts for time-invariant confounders by design. We adjusted models for time-varying covariates. RESULTS: Of the 3443 participants, 1714 quit while 967 began to smoke between surveys. Smoking intensity increased among 398 and decreased among 364 participants. The level of neighborhood disadvantage changed for 1078 participants because they moved residence. Increased disadvantage was associated with increased odds of being a smoker (odds ratio (OR) of taking up smoking 1.23 (95% CI 1.04-1.47) per 1 standard deviation (SD) increase in standardized national disadvantage score). OR for being a heavy/moderate (vs. light) smoker was 1.14 (95% CI 0.85-1.52) when disadvantage increased by 1 SD. CONCLUSIONS: These within-individual results link an increase in neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, due to move in residence, with subsequent smoking behaviors.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Change in neighborhood disadvantage and change in smoking behaviors in adults: a longitudinal, within-individual study |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000530 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000530 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Halonen, JI; Pulakka, A; Stenholm, S; Pentti, J; Kawachi, I; Kivimäki, M; Vahtera, J; (2016) Change in neighborhood disadvantage and change in smoking behaviors in adults: a longitudinal, within-individual study. Epidemiology , 27 (6) pp. 803-809. 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000530. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1504844 |
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