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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2013 Nov 19;54(4):474–480. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.09.011

Table 1.

Multivariate linear models predicting smoking intention and smoking refusal self-efficacy from exposure to pro-smoking media, and their persistence over time as estimated by piecewise linear regression

Variables Smoking intention Smoking refusal self-efficacy
Instant exposure impact (R2 = 0.2206) Exposure Persistence (R2 = 0.2294) Instant exposure impact (R2 = 0.1565) Exposure Persistence (R2 = 0.1623)
b (95% CI) p b (95% CI) p b (95% CI) p b (95% CI) p
Continuous Persistence timea
 Slope between 0 and 7 days −0.12 (−0.19, −0.05) 0.002 0.09 (0.02, 0.16) 0.02
 Slope for more than 7 days 0.01 (−0.08, 0.10) 0.83 −0.01 (−0.10, 0.08) 0.81
Pro-smoking media Exposureb 0.56 (0.26, 0.87) < 0.001 −0.42 (−0.75, −0.10) 0.01
Never smokerc −2.23 (−2.86, −1.59) < 0.001 −2.20 (−2.82, −1.58) < 0.001 1.76 (1.13, 2.39) < 0.001 1.74 (1.12, 2.36) < 0.001
Gender: Male 0.12 (−0.65, 0.89) 0.76 0.12 (−0.65, 0.88) 0.76 0.14 (−0.58, 0.86) 0.70 0.14 (−0.57, 0.86) 0.70
Racial/ethnic minority statusd −0.01 (−0.77, 0.74) 0.98 −0.05 (−0.78, 0.68) 0.90 −0.18 (−0.93, 0.57) 0.63 −0.16 (−0.90, 0.59) 0.68
Weekende 0.02 (−0.06, 0.09) 0.66 −0.01 (−0.09, 0.07) 0.83 0.00 (−0.07, 0.07) 0.99 0.02 (−0.06, 0.10) 0.63

Note. Number of observations = 6793

a

Continuous persistence time from the last exposure in days

b

Versus random prompt

c

Ever smoker is the reference category

d

Compared with non-Hispanic White