1. Social Networks and Smoking in Rural Women: Intervention Implications.
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Thomson, Tiffany L., Krebs, Valdis, Nemeth, Julianna M., Bo Lu, Juan Peng, Doogan, Nathan J., Ferketich, Amy K., Post, Douglas M., Browning, Christopher R., Paskett, Electra D., and Wewers, Mary Ellen
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WOMEN'S social networks ,CIGARETTE smokers -- Social aspects ,RURAL women ,ADVICE ,SMOKING cessation ,MANNERS & customs ,CHI-squared test ,INTERVIEWING ,PROBABILITY theory ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding ,STATISTICAL sampling ,SMOKING ,SOCIAL networks ,STATISTICS ,SURVEYS ,TIME ,DATA analysis ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,EFFECT sizes (Statistics) ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,KRUSKAL-Wallis Test - Abstract
The article covers a study examining the social networks of rural women based on whether they did or did not smoke. Details are provided from a survey of adult women from Ohio Appalachian counties which recorded time women spent with social networks as well as time spent giving or receiving advice. The authors go on to discuss how this study can be used to in the development of a network-based smoking cessation intervention.
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- 2016
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