Family Support and Readiness to Consider Smoking Cessation among Chinese and Vietnamese American Male Smokers
Table 2
Results from multiple regression analysis examining factors associated with readiness to consider smoking cessation.
Variables
(SE)
Demographic characteristics and health status
Age
0.01 (0.01)
0.23
Ethnicity: Vietnamese vs. Chinese
0.58 (0.16)
<0.001
Education level: graduated high school vs. less than high school
0.02 (0.16)
0.88
Marital status: married or living with a partner vs. not married
-0.19 (0.19)
0.30
Self-rated health: fair or poor vs. excellent, very good, or good
0.23 (0.14)
0.11
Smoking characteristics
# years smoked regularly
-0.01 (0.01)
0.34
# cigarettes smoked in a typical day
-0.02 (0.01)
0.036
Time to first cigarette after waking: 30 min or less vs. 31 min or more
-0.16 (0.15)
0.29
Quit attempt in the past year: 1+ attempt vs. no attempts
0.39 (0.14)
0.006
Family support for quitting
Encouraged use of cessation resources
0.22 (0.20)
0.28
Praised efforts
0.69 (0.20)
<0.001
Checked in
0.09 (0.22)
0.67
Reminded of familial role
0.23 (0.22)
0.30
Notes: regression analysis used generalized estimating equations to account for potential clustering effects of participant recruitment (conducted by lay health workers). Family support variables in the regression were continuous variables.