Interpersonal communication about pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages

Policy-related influences and relationships with smoking cessation attempts

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ID4593645
AutoresJames F Thrasher (0000-0001-6418-4863, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, autor correspondente), Erika N Abad-Vivero (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública), Li‐ling Huang (0000-0002-7558-603X, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Richard J O''Connor, Richard J O’connor (0000-0003-0644-182X, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center), Richard J O'Connor, David Hammond (0000-0002-8093-1555), Maansi Bansal-Travers (0000-0002-7944-3570, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center), Hua-Hie Yong (0000-0001-8167-6173, Cancer Council Victoria), Ron Borland (0000-0003-0059-178X, Cancer Council Victoria), B Markovsky (0000-0001-7925-4297, University of South Carolina), James W Hardin (0000-0003-0506-5500, University of South Carolina)
Ano2016
Volume164
Páginas141-149
Data de publicação2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.05.042
PMID26092600
OpenAlexW832731901
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas37

This study evaluated the relationship between interpersonal communication about cigarette health warning labels (HWLs), psychological responses to HWLs, and smoking cessation attempts. Data were analyzed from online consumer panels of adult smokers in Australia, Canada and Mexico, during implementation of new pictorial health warning labels (HWLs) on cigarette packs. Approximately 1000 adult smokers were surveyed in each country every four months (September 2012, January 2013, May 2013, September 2013, January 2014). Only smokers followed for at least two waves were included in the analytic sample. Participants reported the frequency of talking about HWLs in the last month (in general, with family members, and with friends). For each country, poisson generalized estimating equation (GEE) models were estimated to assess the bivariate and adjusted correlates of talking about HWLs. Logistic GEE models regressed having attempted to quit by the subsequent wave on HWL talk, sociodemographics and psychological responses to HWLs. The frequency of HWL talk gradually decreased in Canada (48%-36%) after new HWLs were implemented; an increase (30%-58%) in Australia corresponded with implementation of new HWLs, after which talking stabilized; and the frequency of HWL talk in Mexico was stable over time, where new HWLs are implemented every six months. Talk about HWLs was an independent predictor of subsequent quit attempts in Canada (AOR = 1.50; 95% CI = 1.11-2.02), Australia (AOR = 1.41; 95% CI = 1.05-1.89), and Mexico (AOR = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.11-2.10), as was cognitive responses to HWLs (Australia AOR = 1.66; 95% CI = 1.22-2.24; Canada AOR = 1.56; 95% CI = 1.15-2.11; Mexico AOR = 1.30; 95% CI = 0.91-1.85). No interaction between talk and cognitive reactions to HWLs were found. These results suggest that interpersonal communication about HWLs influences smoking cessation attempts independent of other established predictors of smoking cessation, including cessation-related HWL responses. Future research should determine ways to catalyze interpersonal communication about HWLs and thereby potentiate HWL effects

Cigarette smoking · Environmental health · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal interaction · Interpersonal relationship · Public health · Smoking cessation · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Social Psychology