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Abstract
Introduction: This descriptive study examined the relationship between body image perception and smoking status among women aged 19-64 years in Korea, using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES).
Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of data gathered from the KNHANES between 2014 and 2020, encompassing 12515 women aged 19-64 years. The final study group consisted of 742 current smokers (CS), 132 hidden smokers (HS), and 11641 non-smokers (NS). Hidden smokers were defined as participants who reported being non-smokers but had urine cotinine levels >50 ng/mL. The participants were divided into three age categories: 19-29, 30-49, and 50-64 years. A multiple logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between body image perception and smoking status, by age group.
Results: Baseline statistics indicated that smokers (both CS and HS) generally had a lower socioeconomic status across all age groups. The highest rate of obesity perception was observed in the CS group, followed by the HS group, in both groups of women aged 19-29 and 30-49 years. However, only women aged 19-29 years in the CS group were more likely to perceive themselves as obese than those in the NS group (AOR=2.60; 95% CI: 1.49-4.52; p=0.001). Furthermore, factors such as current smoking status (AOR=2.32; 95% CI: 1.28-4.23; p=0.006), higher body mass index (AOR=2.95; 95% CI: 2.59-3.37; p<0.001), and perceived health status as poor (AOR=3.82; 95% CI: 2.11-6.92; p<0.001), significantly influenced the perception of obesity in this age group.
Conclusions: This study identified a notable relationship between obesity perception and smoking among women aged 19-29 years only. These findings suggest that interventions aimed at weight reduction or modifying the perception of obesity, could potentially aid smoking cessation efforts in young women.
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Tobacco Induced Diseases encompasses all aspects of research related to the prevention and control of tobacco use at a global level. Preventing diseases attributable to tobacco is only one aspect of the journal, whose overall scope is to provide a forum for the publication of research articles that can contribute to reducing the burden of tobacco induced diseases globally. To address this epidemic we believe that there must be an avenue for the publication of research/policy activities on tobacco control initiatives that may be very important at a regional and national level. This approach provides a very important "hands on" service to the tobacco control community at a global scale - as common problems have common solutions. Hence, we see ourselves as "connectors" within this global community.
The journal hence encourages the submission of articles from all medical, biological and psychosocial disciplines, ranging from medical and dental clinicians, through health professionals to basic biomedical and clinical scientists.