TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonmedical use of cough syrup among secondary vocational school students
T2 - A national survey in China
AU - Wu, Qingfeng
AU - Yu, Jincong
AU - Yang, Chengwu
AU - Chen, Jiayan
AU - Yang, Longyu
AU - Zhang, Hui
AU - Teng, Shiwei
AU - Li, Jiang
AU - Yan, Dong
AU - Cao, Jiepin
AU - Zhao, Yanting
AU - Wang, Zengzhen
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-81273152). The authors gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Education Bureaus, Disease Control Centers, and all participating schools at Shenzhen, Zhaoqing, Ningbo, Wuhan, Chongqing, and Taiyuan.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/3/4
Y1 - 2016/3/4
N2 - Nonmedical use of cough syrup (NUCS) among secondary vocational school (SVS) students has been an increasing concern for public health in China, but no data were available. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the epidemiological characters of NUCS as well as its risk factors among SVS students in China. From September 2013 to December 2014, a total of 13,614 SVS students were purposively selected through multistage sampling in 6 cities of China. Information on NUCS, demographics, family background, smoking and alcohol consumption, impulsiveness, sensation seeking, and parental monitoring were collected. Logistic regression was used to explore factors related to NUCS. The 12,923 (94.9%) valid responses (16.3-1.0 years old, and 52.6% men) reported 3.47% (95% confidence interval: 3.15-3.79%) lifetime NUCS. Logistic regression indicated that smoking, part-time job experience, high level of impulsiveness, and sensation seeking were risk factors for NUCS, whereas urban living and high parental monitoring were protective ones. NUCS was prevalent among SVS students. Interventions that target on smoking, impulsiveness and sensation seeking control, improvement on parental monitoring may have considerable impact on NUCS among SVS students.
AB - Nonmedical use of cough syrup (NUCS) among secondary vocational school (SVS) students has been an increasing concern for public health in China, but no data were available. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the epidemiological characters of NUCS as well as its risk factors among SVS students in China. From September 2013 to December 2014, a total of 13,614 SVS students were purposively selected through multistage sampling in 6 cities of China. Information on NUCS, demographics, family background, smoking and alcohol consumption, impulsiveness, sensation seeking, and parental monitoring were collected. Logistic regression was used to explore factors related to NUCS. The 12,923 (94.9%) valid responses (16.3-1.0 years old, and 52.6% men) reported 3.47% (95% confidence interval: 3.15-3.79%) lifetime NUCS. Logistic regression indicated that smoking, part-time job experience, high level of impulsiveness, and sensation seeking were risk factors for NUCS, whereas urban living and high parental monitoring were protective ones. NUCS was prevalent among SVS students. Interventions that target on smoking, impulsiveness and sensation seeking control, improvement on parental monitoring may have considerable impact on NUCS among SVS students.
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U2 - 10.1097/MD.0000000000002969
DO - 10.1097/MD.0000000000002969
M3 - Article
C2 - 26962800
AN - SCOPUS:84962530075
SN - 0025-7974
VL - 95
JO - Medicine (United States)
JF - Medicine (United States)
IS - 10
M1 - e2969
ER -
