ArticleSubstance use & misuse2017
The Influence of Religious Attendance on Smoking Among Black Men.
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- A Christian Faith-Based Facebook Intervention for Smoking Cessation in Rural Communities (FAITH-CORE): Protocol for a Community Participatory Development Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
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- Examining the Frequency of Religious Practices among Hypertensive and Non-Hypertensive Black Men.Journal of healthcare, science and the humanities · 2022Article
- Religious service attendance typologies and African American substance use: a longitudinal study of the protective effects among young adult men and women.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- Trauma exposure, PTSD symptoms, and tobacco use: Does church attendance buffer negative effects?Journal of community psychology · 2020Article
- Smoking and Religion: Untangling Associations Using English Survey Data.Journal of religion and health · 2019Article
- The Effectiveness of Cigarette Pack Health Warning Labels with Religious Messages in an Urban Setting in Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- "Thou Shalt not Smoke": Religion and smoking in a natural experiment of history.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Religious Affiliation, Informal Participation, and Network Support Associated With Substance Use: Differences Across Age Groups.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2019Article
- Does religious involvement affect mortality in low-income Americans? A prospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- When Resilience Becomes Risk: A Latent Class Analysis of Psychosocial Resources and Allostatic Load Among African American Men.American journal of men's healthArticle
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backgroundCigarette smoking poses a major public health problem that disproportionately affects Blacks and men. Religious attendance has been shown to be positively associated with health promotion and disease prevention among the Black population. In light of this evidence, this study examined if a similar relationship could be found for religious attendance and smoking in Black men.
methodsThe National Survey of American Life (NSAL) study sampled 1,271 African American men and 562 Black Caribbean men. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine the association between religious attendance and cigarette smoking.
resultsAfter adjusting for age, marital status, household income, education, foreign born status, importance of prayer and major stress, men who reported attending religious services almost every day (odds ratio (OR) = 0.21, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.07, 0.62) and weekly (OR = 0.47, 95% CI = 0.29, 0.77) had lower odds of being a current smoker compared to men who reported never attending religious services. Conclusions/Importance: Findings suggest a health benefit in attending religious services on cigarette smoking among Black men in a nationally representative sample. In spite of lower church attendance in Black men in general, our results demonstrate that religious service attendance may still serve as a buffer against cigarette use. Given the emergent attention on faith-based health promotion among men, this conclusion is relevant and timely.
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