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| Xinguang ChenSummaryAffiliation: University of Southern California Country: USA Publications
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Hazards of smoking initiation among Asian American and non-Asian adolescents in California: a survival model analysisX Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033, USA
Prev Med 28:589-99. 1999..Unfortunately, there is a lack of such information for Asian Americans, a fast-growing ethnic minority group with much internal diversity...
Is acculturation a risk factor for early smoking initiation among Chinese American minors? A comparative perspectiveX Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
Tob Control 8:402-10. 1999..To determine the extent to which Chinese American and white minors differ in age of smoking initiation, and to determine the effect of acculturation on smoking initiation...- Hazard of smoking initiation by age among adolescents in Wuhan, ChinaX Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1540 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9008, USA
Prev Med 32:437-45. 2001..Knowledge about age of smoking initiation among adolescents in China is helpful for exploring cultural differences in adolescent smoking behavior and informative for global tobacco control. However, little has been documented on this issue... - Receptivity to protobacco media and its impact on cigarette smoking among ethnic minority youth in CaliforniaXinguang Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Alhambra 91803, USA
J Health Commun 7:95-111. 2002..Protecting adolescents from protobacco advertising influences is an important element in tobacco control among ethnic minority youth... - Prior cigarette smoking initiation predicting current alcohol use: evidence for a gateway drug effect among California adolescents from eleven ethnic groupsXinguang Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90089, USA
Addict Behav 27:799-817. 2002..Studies should be conducted to investigate factors attributable to the ethnic variations of this association... - Project EX--a teen smoking cessation initial study in Wuhan, ChinaHong Zheng
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, USA
Addict Behav 29:1725-33. 2004..These data provided evidence that Project EX can be adapted in another country, such as China; can be very well received; and can lead to promising results on cessation... - Sensations from initial exposure to nicotine predicting adolescent smoking in China: a potential measure of vulnerability to nicotineXinguang Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Alhambra CA, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:455-63. 2003..Self-reported sensations from initial exposure to nicotine may be a useful indicator of an individual's vulnerability to nicotine. This information can be used for adolescent smoking prevention and cessation interventions... - Peer influences and access to cigarettes as correlates of adolescent smoking: a cross-cultural comparison of Wuhan, China, and CaliforniaJennifer B Unger
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Prev Med 34:476-84. 2002.... - Secular trends in adolescent never smoking from 1990 to 1999 in California: an age-period-cohort analysisXinguang Chen
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Public Health 93:2099-104. 2003..We analyzed age, time period, and cohort effects on trends in adolescent cigarette smoking in California from 1990 to 1999... - Family characteristics and smoking among urban and rural adolescents living in ChinaSohaila Shakib
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research and Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, USA
Prev Med 40:83-91. 2005..Adolescent smoking is a public health concern in China. Although the family is an important social influence in China, few associations among family characteristics and adolescent smoking have been examined using Chinese samples... - Use of the fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire for measuring nicotine dependence among adolescent smokers in China: a pilot testXinguang Chen
Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 16:260-3. 2002..67 and .79 for the 7-item and 4-item scales, respectively. The total FTQ scores were significantly associated with self-reported smoking and saliva cotinine levels. These results support the reliability and validity of the Prokhorov FTQ... - Alcohol and marijuana use outcomes in the Healthy Choices motivational interviewing intervention for HIV-positive youthDebra A Murphy
Health Risk Reduction Projects, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90025, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 26:95-100. 2012..The intervention was less effective in reducing marijuana use... - Patterns of cigarette smoking among students from 19 colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province, China: a latent class analysisXinguang Chen
Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 St Antoine Street, UHC 6 D, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:153-63. 2004..Results also suggest that LCA may be an effective methodology for analyzing behavioral types and their dynamics with a limited number of variables... - Stigmatization experienced by rural-to-urban migrant workers in China: findings from a qualitative studyXiaoming Li
Prevention Research Center, Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201 2196, USA
World Health Popul 9:29-43. 2007..The current study is a necessary first step to assess the potential impact of stigmatization on both the physical and psychological well-being of rural-to-urban migrant workers... 
Substance use among rural-to-urban migrants in China: a moderation effect model analysisXinguang Chen
Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4210 St Antoine Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Subst Use Misuse 43:105-24. 2008..Substance use represents a public health challenge in China. The rapidly growing rural-to-urban migrants, currently numbering 88 million, may be especially vulnerable to substance use...- Stay away from tobacco: a pilot trial of a school-based adolescent smoking prevention program in Beijing, ChinaXinguang Chen
Prevention Research Center, The Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:227-37. 2006..A full-scale evaluation is recommended... - Age of smoking onset as a predictor of smoking cessation during pregnancyXinguang Chen
Prevention Research Center, The Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 St Antoine Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Am J Health Behav 30:247-58. 2006..To assess age of smoking onset as a predictor of smoking cessation during pregnancy... - Perceived smoking norms, socioenvironmental factors, personal attitudes and adolescent smoking in China: a mediation analysis with longitudinal dataXinguang Chen
Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:359-68. 2006..Effective adolescent smoking intervention programs in China need to include a component targeting adult smoking to reduce perceived smoking norms... - Willingness to participate in HIV/STD prevention activities among Chinese rural-to-urban migrantsHongmei Yang
Wayne State University Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 16:557-70. 2004..Recruitment and retention of individuals with high-risk behavior in prevention activities will be critical and challenging... - Alcohol intoxication and sexual risk behaviors among rural-to-urban migrants in ChinaDanhua Lin
Beijing Normal University Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing 100875, China
Drug Alcohol Depend 79:103-12. 2005..HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention efforts should include components of alcohol use/abuse prevention for an effective reduction of sexual risk among young rural-to-urban migrants in China... - Smoking and drinking patterns among residents of Li ethnic minority villages in Hainan, ChinaXiaolan Tang
Department of Preventive Medicine, Hainan Medical College, Haikou, Hainan, China
Subst Use Misuse 40:687-701. 2005.... - Cigarette smoking among rural-to-urban migrants in Beijing, ChinaXinguang Chen
Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Prev Med 39:666-73. 2004..Tobacco use remains a substantial public health challenge in China. The rapidly growing rural-to-urban migrant population currently numbering approximately 121 million individuals may be especially vulnerable to tobacco use... - Heterosexual transmission of HIV in China: a systematic review of behavioral studies in the past two decadesHongmei Yang
Prevention Research Center the Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:270-80. 2005..The objective of this study was to address the role of heterosexual transmission of HIV in China... - HIV-related risk factors associated with commercial sex among female migrants in ChinaHongmei Yang
The Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University Prevention Research Center, 4201 St Antoine Street, Suite 6D, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Health Care Women Int 26:134-48. 2005..Sexual risk reduction and condom promotion are urgently needed among this population. Further studies are needed to examine the casual relationship between depression and HIV risk behaviors... - Risk factors for sexually transmitted disease among rural-to-urban migrants in China: implications for HIV/sexually transmitted disease preventionHongjie Liu
Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201 2196, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 19:49-57. 2005..Appropriate behavioral intervention programs are advocated to reduce the risk and stigma among the special population... - Adults' perceived prevalence of enteric fever predicts laboratory-validated incidence of typhoid fever in childrenXinguang Chen
Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Health Popul Nutr 25:469-78. 2007..01; R2=0.992). Using adults' perception of prevalence of disease as the basis for estimating its incidence in children provides a cost-effective behavioural epidemiologic method to facilitate prevention and control of the disease... - Differences in perception of dysentery and enteric fever and willingness to receive vaccines among rural residents in ChinaXinguang Chen
Prevention Research Center, The Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 St Antoine Street UHC 6D, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Vaccine 24:561-71. 2006..While vaccines offer great potential in controlling these diseases, greater understanding of factors influencing acceptance of vaccines is needed to create effective enteric disease control programs in rural China...