Imperial College London
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Dr Anthony Laverty

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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322Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Radó:2024:10.1111/add.16384,
author = {Radó, MK and Kisfalusi, D and Laverty, AA and van, Lenthe FJ and Been, JV and Takács, K},
doi = {10.1111/add.16384},
journal = {Addiction},
pages = {488--498},
title = {Socio-economic inequalities in smoking and drinking in adolescence: Assessment of social network dynamics.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16384},
volume = {119},
year = {2024}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - AIMS: We investigated whether (1) adolescents selected friends with a similar socio-economic status (SES), (2) smoking and alcohol consumption spread in networks and (3) the exclusion of non-smokers or non-drinkers differed between SES groups. DESIGN: This was a longitudinal study using stochastic actor-oriented models to analyze complete social network data over three waves. SETTING: Eight Hungarian secondary schools with socio-economically diverse classes took part. PARTICIPANTS: This study comprised 232 adolescents aged between 14 and 15 years in the first wave. MEASUREMENTS: Self-reported smoking behavior, alcohol consumption behavior and friendship ties were measured. SES was measured based upon entitlement to an income-tested regular child protection benefit. FINDINGS: Non-low-SES adolescents were most likely to form friendships with peers from their own SES group [odds ratio (OR) = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.02-1.11]. Adolescents adjusted their smoking behavior (OR = 24.05, 95% CI = 1.27-454.86) but not their alcohol consumption (OR = 1.65, 95% CI = 0.62-4.39) to follow the behavior of their friends. Smokers did not differ from non-smokers in the likelihood of receiving a friendship nomination (OR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.87-1.10), regardless of their SES. Alcohol consumers received significantly more friendship nominations than non-consumers (OR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.01-1.33), but this association was not significantly different according to SES. CONCLUSIONS: Hungarian adolescents appear to prefer friendships within their own socio-economic status group, and smoking and alcohol consumption spread within those friendship networks. Socio-economic groups do not differ in the extent to which they encourage smoking or alcohol consumption.
AU  - Radó,MK
AU  - Kisfalusi,D
AU  - Laverty,AA
AU  - van,Lenthe FJ
AU  - Been,JV
AU  - Takács,K
DO  - 10.1111/add.16384
EP  - 498
PY  - 2024///
SP  - 488
TI  - Socio-economic inequalities in smoking and drinking in adolescence: Assessment of social network dynamics.
T2  - Addiction
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16384
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37994195
VL  - 119
ER  -
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