Healthy Generations


Healthy Generations. In focus groups of Latino youth, we learned that some parents were prompting their children to do behaviors that put them in direct contact with cigarettes or encouraged them to practice smoking-related behaviors. The most direct of these parent prompts was asking children to light the cigarette in their mouths before giving it to the parent. Surveys conducted by our group showed that, among those with smoking parents, 17% of Mexicans, 18% of Mexican-Americans, and 3% or other U.S. ethnic groups re ported this parent prompting behavior (p < .001). The frequency of lighting cigarettes in the mouth was significantly related to the children's reported smoking frequency in a cross-sectional analysis. The purposes of this three-year study are to validate the child reports of parental prompts with parent surveys, to identify correlates of parental prompting, and to prospectively examine the effects of parental prompting on smoking among Latino youth in San Diego. This study will determine whether interventions are needed to reduce parent prompting behaviors and which interventions appear to be most promising and acceptable to Latino parents and children.

Principal Investigator:	Rafael Laniado-Laborin, M.D., M.P.H.
Co-Principal Investigators:	Susan I. Woodruff, Ph.D. and James Sallis, Ph.D.
Dates:	July 1, 1998 to June 30, 2002
Total Funding:	$861,000
Funding Source:	University of California, Tobacco Related Disease Research Program
Major Findings:
Journal Articles and Book Chapters published or in press Woodruff SI, Laniado-Laborn R, Candelaria JI, Villaseor A, Sallis JF. Parental Prompts as Risk Factors for Adolescent Trial Smoking: Results of a Prospective Cohort Study. (2002) Under Review Laniado-Laborn, R, Candelaria, JI, Villaseor, A, Woodruff, SI, Sallis, JF. Concordance between parental and children's reports of parental prompting to smoke. (2002) Under Review Woodruff, S.I., Candelaria, J.I., Laniado-Laborn, R., Sallis, J.F., & Villaseor, A. (2003). Availability of cigarettes as a risk factor for trial smoking in adolescents. American Journal of Health Behavior, 27(1), 84-88. Laniado-Laborn, R., Woodruff, S.I., Candelaria, J.I., Sallis, J.F. (2002) Parental Prompting and Smoking among Latino Youth. Ethnicity and Disease, 12(4), 508-516. Presentations at Scientific and Professional Conferences Candelaria, JI., Woodruff, SI., Laniado-Laborn, R. Factors associated with smoking-related parental prompting behaviors: Results from parent surveys and youth follow-up surveys Presented at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, PA, November, 2002 Candelaria, JI, Woodruff SI., Laniado-Laborn, R. Healthy Generations: Factors associated with smoking-related parental prompting behaviors: Results from parent surveys. Presented at the Annual Investigators Meeting (AIM 2001)of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, Los Angeles, CA, December, 2001 Villasenor A, Candelaria, JI, Laniado-Laborn, R, Healthy Generations: A Study of Culturally-specific Parental Prompts to Smoke among Youth Results from the Tijuana, Mexico Component. Presented at the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 2001 Candelaria, JI., Woodruff, SI., Laniado-Laborn, R. Healthy Generations: Factors associated with smoking-related parental prompting behaviors - Results from parent surveys. Presented at the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 2001 Laniado-Laborn, R., Candelaria, JI. Sallis, JF., Woodruff, SI., Villaseor, A. Parental prompting behaviors and increased prevalence of youth smoking. Presented at the 2001 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, May 18-23, 2001 Laniado L., R., Sallis, JF., Woodruff, SI., Candelaria, JI., y Villaseor, A. Factores de riesgo para adopcin de tabaquismo en adolescentes Mxico-americanos. Presented at the LX Congreso de Neumologa Tijuana 2001, April, 2001 Laniado-Laborn, R. Healthy Generations: A Study of Culturally-specific Parental Prompts to Smoke among Youth Results from the middle school student surveys. Presented at the Annual Investigators Meeting (AIM 2000) of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, San Diego, CA, December, 2000 Laniado-Laborn, R., Woodruff, SI., Candelaria, JI, Villaseor, A., Sallis, JF. Healthy Generations: A Study of Culturally-specific Parental Prompts to Smoke among Youth Results from the middle school student surveys. Presented at the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, November, 2000 Laniado-Laborn, R. Healthy Generations: Initial Results from a Study on Parental Prompting to Smoke Among Latino Youth. Presented at the Annual Investigators Meeting (AIM 1999) of the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, San Francisco, CA, December, 1999 Laniado-Laborn, R., Woodruff, SI., Candelaria, JI., Villaseor, A., Sallis, JF. Parental Prompting and Smoking Prevalence among Latino Youth. Presented at the 127th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago, Il, November, 1999 Laniado-Laborn, R. Multicultural issues in tobacco control. Presented at the 5th National Tobacco Control Conference, Orlando, FL, August 1999 Laniado-Laborn, R. Cultural Sensitivity in Tobacco Control: Techniques with African Americans, Latinos, Vietnamese, Mexican Immigrants and Native Americans. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Marina del Rey, November, 1998 Laniado-Laborn, R. Nicotine Dependency: Addressing the Needs of Culturally Diverse Populations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, Marina del Rey, November, 1998