Examining Disparities in Current E-Cigarette Use among U.S. Adults before and after the WHO Declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic in March 2020.

Autor:	Mamudu HM; College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Adzrago D; Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research and School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA., Dada O; Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Murray State University, 157 Industry and Technology Center, Murray, KY 42071, USA., Odame EA; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Ryals Public Health Building (RPHB), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA., Ahuja M; College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Awasthi M; College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Weierbach FM; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; College of Nursing, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Williams F; Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA., Stewart DW; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Paul TK; Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.; Division of Medicine, University of Tennessee at Nashville/Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital, Nashville, TN 37205, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	International journal of environmental research and public health [Int J Environ Res Public Health] 2023 Apr 26; Vol. 20 (9). Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 26.
DOI:	10.3390/ijerph20095649
Abstrakt:	This paper aims to estimate the prevalence of e-cigarette use before and after the COVID-19 pandemic declaration and to delineate disparities in use across subpopulations. Data were derived from the 2020 Health Information National Trends Survey ( N = 3865) to conduct weighted multivariable logistic regression and marginal analyses. The overall prevalence of current e-cigarette use increased from 4.79% to 8.63% after the COVID-19 pandemic declaration. Furthermore, non-Hispanic Black people and Hispanic people had lower odds of current e-cigarette use than non-Hispanic White people, but no significant differences were observed between groups before the pandemic. Compared to heterosexual participants, sexual minority (SM) participants had higher odds of current e-cigarette use after the declaration, with insignificant differences before. People who had cardiovascular disease conditions, relative to those without, had higher odds of current e-cigarette use after the declaration, but no group differences were found before the declaration. The marginal analyses showed that before and after the pandemic declaration, SM individuals had a significantly higher probability of using e-cigarettes compared to heterosexual individuals. These findings suggest the importance of adopting a subpopulation approach to understand and develop initiatives to address substance use, such as e-cigarettes, during pandemics and other public health emergencies.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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