Depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking among Latinos in San Francisco.
We administered the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale to 547 San Francisco Latinos as part of a random digit dialing telephone survey to evaluate smoking behavior. Both men and women current smokers had the highest mean CES-D levels (9.7 and 14.3, respectively). Logistic regression analysis adjusting for gender, acculturation, education, age, and employment showed that current smokers had an odds ratio of 1.7 (95% CI = 1.3, 2.2) for significant depressive symptoms compared to former smokers (OR = 1.1;95% CI = .8, 1.6) and never smokers (OR = 1).
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D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D012495:San Francisco; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*