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Tobacco consumption and positive mental health: an epidemiological study from a positive psychology perspective

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dc.contributor.author Bazo-Alvarez, Juan-Carlos
dc.contributor.author Peralta-Alvarez, Frank
dc.contributor.author Bernabé Ortiz, Antonio
dc.contributor.author Alvarado, German-F.
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.date.accessioned 2019-02-06T14:45:10Z
dc.date.available 2019-02-06T14:45:10Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/5024
dc.description.abstract BACKGROUND: Positive mental health (PMH) is much more than the absence of mental illnesses. For example, PMH explains that to be happy or resilient can drive us to live a full life, giving us a perception of well-being and robustness against everyday problems. Moreover, PMH can help people to avoid risky behaviours like tobacco consumption (TC). Our hypothesis was that PMH is negatively associated with TC, and this association differs across rural, urban and migrant populations. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted using the PERU MIGRANT Study's dataset, including rural population from the Peruvian highlands (n = 201), urban population from the capital city Lima (n = 199) and migrants who were born in highlands but had to migrated because of terrorism (n = 589). We used an adapted version of the 12-item Global Health Questionnaire to measure PMH. The outcome was TC, measured as lifetime and recent TC. Log-Poisson robust regression, performed with a Maximum Likelihood method, was used to estimate crude prevalence ratios (PR) and 95 % confidence intervals (95%CI), adjusted by sex, age, family income and education which were the confounders. The modelling procedure included the use of LR Test, Akaike information criteria (AIC) and Bayesian information criteria (BIC). RESULTS: Cumulative occurrence of tobacco use (lifetime TC) was 61.7 % in the rural group, 78 % in the urban group and 76.2 % in rural-to-urban migrants. Recent TC was 35.3 % in the rural group, 30.7 % in the urban group and 20.5 % in rural-to-urban migrants. After adjusting for confounders, there was evidence of a negative association between PMH and lifetime TC in the rural group (PR = 0.93; 95%CI: 0.87-0.99), and a positive association between PMH and recent TC in migrants (PR = 1.1; 95%CI: 1.0-1.3). CONCLUSIONS: PMH was negatively associated with TC in rural participants only. Urbans exhibited just a similar trend, while migrants exhibited the opposite one. This evidence represents the first step in the route of knowing the potential of PMH for fighting against TC. For rural populations, this study supplies new information that could support decisions about prevention programmes and psychotherapy for smoking cessation. However, more research in the topic is needed. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofseries BMC Psychology
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Mental Health en_US
dc.subject Adult en_US
dc.subject Aged en_US
dc.subject Aged, 80 and over en_US
dc.subject Bayes Theorem en_US
dc.subject Cross-Sectional Studies en_US
dc.subject Epidemiologic Studies en_US
dc.subject Female en_US
dc.subject GHQ-12 en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Likelihood Functions en_US
dc.subject Male en_US
dc.subject Middle Aged en_US
dc.subject Personal Satisfaction en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject Positive Mental Health en_US
dc.subject Positive Psychology en_US
dc.subject Prevalence en_US
dc.subject Risk Factors en_US
dc.subject Rural Population en_US
dc.subject Rural Population/statistics & numerical data en_US
dc.subject Rural-to-Urban Migrant en_US
dc.subject Socioeconomic Factors en_US
dc.subject Surveys and Questionnaires en_US
dc.subject Tobacco Consumption en_US
dc.subject Tobacco Use/psychology en_US
dc.subject Transients and Migrants/psychology en_US
dc.subject Urban Population/statistics & numerical data en_US
dc.title Tobacco consumption and positive mental health: an epidemiological study from a positive psychology perspective en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-016-0130-7
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.00
dc.relation.issn 2050-7283


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