lakunchykova O, Andreeva T, Hryhorczuk D, Shkiryak-Nizhnyk Z, Zvinchuk A, Chislovska N, Antipkin Y (2012b) The impact of early life stress on risk of tobacco smoking initiation by adolescents. Tobacco Control and Public Health in Eastern Europe 2 (Supplement 1, 2nd conference 'Economics, sociology, theory and practice of public health'):s49-s50. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.92828
The impact of early life stress on risk of tobacco smoking initiation by adolescents
lakunchykova, Olena; Andreeva, Tatiana; Hryhorczuk, Daniel; Shkiryak-Nizhnyk, Zoreslava; Zvinchuk, Alexander; Chislovska, Natalia; Antipkin, Yuri
BACKGROUND: Early life stress is known to be associated with increased propensity to substance abuse. The present study seeks to confirm the association between early life stress and tobacco smoking initiation by adolescents.
METHODS: This study is based on the data of the Family and Children of Ukraine Study, which is a part of the cohort study in Europe for pregnancy and childhood "ELSPAC". Main exposures were stressful life event scores at 3 and 7 years that were calculated by summing the perceived impact score reported by mothers for each life event. Smoking status of the adolescent and age of smoking initiation, reported at the 16-years-old follow-up, were outcome measures. Data were analyzed using multivariate binary logistic regression models separately for boys and girls controlling for socio-demographic characteristics and mother's smoking.
RESULTS: Stressful life events score was available for 898 participants at age 3 years and for 840 participants at age 7 years and varied from 0 to 48 points, with mean equal 4.69 and 5.96 respectively. In the gender-stratified analysis, current smoking by boys or girls was not associated with early life stress measured at 3 years old. Association between smoking and early life stress at age 7 years was not observed for boys. However, girls who experienced much stress at 7 years (more than 12 points) had 3 times higher odds of smoking (OR=2.94, 95% CI = 1.26-6.83).
Girls who had scored more than 12 points for stressful life events at 3 or 7 years old were re-
spectively three times (OR=3.34, 95% CI = 1.507.42) or two times (OR=2.19, 95% CI = 1.01-4.74) more likely to start smoking at 13 years old or younger.
CONCLUSIONS: Early life stress may have effect on vulnerability to tobacco smoking by adolescents. However, this effect was significant only for girls at high incidence of stressful life events.
KEY WORDS: early life stress, smoking, adolescents.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Olena lakunchykova1, MPH, Tatiana Andreeva1,
MD, PhD, Daniel Hryhorczuk2,3, MD, MPH,
Zoreslava Shkiryak-Nizhnyk4, MD, PhD, Alexander Zvinchuk5, Natalia Chislovska4, MD, PhD, Yuri An-tipkin4. MD, PhD
1. School of Public Health, National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kyiv, Ukraine.
2. Center for Global Health, University of Illinois College of Medicine
3. Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health,
4. Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynecology,
5. University of Illinois Louise Hamilton Data Management Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
This paper was received 18.02.2012, accepted 15.04.2012, published 10.07.2012.
Влияние стресса в ранний период жизни на риск начала курения подростками
Якунчикова Елена Петровна, Андреева Татьяна Ильинична, Григорчук Даниель, Шкиряк-Нижник Зореслава Антоновна, Звинчук Александр Всеволодович, Числовская Наталья Вадимовна, Ан-типкин Юрий Геннадиевич
УДК 159.944.4:613.84]-053.6 КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: стресс в ранний период
жизни, курение, подростки.
2012, Vol.2, Supplement 11 Tobacco control and public health in Eastern Europe
2nd conference 'Economics, sociology, theory and practice of public health’ conference proceedings | s49
tobacco
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Вплив стресу у ранній період життя на ризик початку куріння підлітками
Якунчикова Олена Петрівна, Андрєєва Тетяна Іллівна, Григорчук Даніел, Шкіряк-Нижник Зоре-слава Антонівна, Звінчук Олександр Всеволодович, Числовська Наталія Вадимівна, Антипкін Юрій Геннадійович
КЛЮЧОВІ СЛОВА: стрес у ранній період життя, куріння, підлітки.
s50 |2 конф-ція «Економіка, соціологія, теорія і практика охорони здоров’я»
Контроль над тютюном й охорона громадського здоровья у Східній Європі | 2012, том 2, додаток 1