Vulnerability and self-perceived health status among light and heavy smokers
The Relationship to Short-Term Fear Appeal Tobacco Control Messages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5229294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | André Salém Szklo (0000-0003-1903-6188, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Brasil), Evandro Silva Freire Coutinho (0000-0002-4649-7353, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1534-1542 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0102-311x2009000700011 |
| PMID | 19578574 |
| OpenAlex | W2097337320 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0102-311X2009000700011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
It is important to stimulate smokers to acquire some level of risk perception associated with their current behavior in order to motivate smoking cessation. The present article attempts to understand how the content of short-term fear appeal government tobacco messages may interact with different levels of daily cigarette consumption in order to affect smokers' vulnerabilities, expressed by self-perceived health status. A Poisson model was used to estimate the prevalence ratio of fair or poor self-perceived health status (FPHS) according to daily cigarette consumption. We also calculated the proportions of smokers who stated that selected health warning pictures on cigarette packets encourage people to quit smoking, stratified by self-perceived health status and daily cigarette consumption. The proportion of smokers with FPHS was 25% higher among those who smoked > 20 cigarettes/day (p = 0.01). Among smokers with FPHS, heavy smokers showed the highest proportions of responses in favor of selected warning pictures most closely related to losses in ordinary daily living, such as shortness of breath and being bothered by cigarette addiction. Short-term loss-framed tobacco control messages seem to have raised awareness of vulnerability among heavier smokers
Addiction · Affect (linguistics) · Computer security · Consumption (sociology) · Environmental health · Fear appeal · Perception · Psychiatry · Public health · Tobacco control · Vulnerability (computing) · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |