Associations between health literacy and established predictors of smoking cessation

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 103; no. 7; pp. e43 - e49
• Main Authors: Stewart, Diana W, Adams, Claire E, Cano, Miguel A, Correa-Fernández, Virmarie, Li, Yisheng, Waters, Andrew J, Wetter, David W, Vidrine, Jennifer Irvin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.07.2013
• Subjects: Abstinence; Adolescent; Adult; African Americans; African Americans/Blacks; Aged; Cross-Sectional Studies; Demographics; Educational attainment; Ethnicity; Female; Health behavior; Health care expenditures; Health disparities; Health Education; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health Literacy; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Humans; Knowledge; Laboratories; Low income groups; Lung cancer; Male; Medical screening; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Mortality; Nicotine; Online Research and Practice; Perceptions; Prevention; Public health; Questionnaires; Race; Risk Factors; Self Efficacy; Sex Factors; Smoking Cessation; Smoking Cessation - ethnology; Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Studies; Surgeons General; Tobacco Use Disorder - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States > US

We examined associations between health literacy and predictors of smoking cessation among 402 low-socioeconomic status (SES), racially/ethnically diverse smokers. Data were collected as part of a larger study evaluating smoking health risk messages. We conducted multiple linear regression analyses...