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Tobacco addiction and smoking cessation in Austrian migrants: a cross-sectional study
Matthias Urban1, Otto Chris Burghuber1, Canan Dereci2
1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
Objective:
Recent observations revealed substantial differences in smoking behaviour according to individuals' migration background. However, smoking cessation strategies are rarely tailored on the basis of a migration background. We aimed to determine whether smoking behaviour and preferences for smoking cessation programmes differ between Austrian migrant smokers and Austrian smokers without a migration background.
Study Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Recruitment and interview were performed at public places in Vienna, Austria.
Participants:
The 420 smokers included: 140 Bosnian, 140 Turkish migrant smokers of the first or second generation, as well as 140 Austrian smokers without a migration background.
Methods:
We cross-sectionally assessed determinants of smoking behaviour and smoking cessation of every participant with a standardised questionnaire.
Primary Outcome Measure:
The Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
Determinants of smoking behaviour, willingness to quit smoking and smoking cessation.
Results:
Nicotine addiction expressed via the Fagerström score was significantly higher in smokers with a migration background versus those without (Bosnian migrant smokers 4.7 ± 2.5, Turkish migrant smokers 4.0 ± 2.0, Austrian smokers without a migration background 3.4 ± 2.3, p<0.0001). Bosnian and Turkish migrant smokers described a greater willingness to quit, but have had more previous cessation trials than Austrian smokers without a migration background, indicating an increased demand for cessation strategies in these study groups. They also participated in counselling programmes less often than Austrian smokers without a migration background. Finally, we found significant differences in preferences regarding smoking cessation programmes (ie, preferred location, service offered in another language besides German, and group rather than single counselling).
Conclusions:
We found significant differences in addictive behaviour and cessation patterns between smokers with and without a migration background. Our results indicate a strong demand for adjusting cessation programmes to the cultural background.
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