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IPR Seminar Series - Graduate Student Flash Session

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January 31, 2023
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Townshend 038 & Zoom Option Available

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Add to Calendar 2023-01-31 12:30:00 2023-01-31 13:30:00 IPR Seminar Series - Graduate Student Flash Session Graduate Student Flash Session - Young Choi, Sociology; Shawnice Shankle, Nursing; Lawrence Stacey, Sociology Yoonyoung Choi - Title: Onset and Cessation of Smoking: Temporal Dynamics and Racial Difference in Educational Smoking Disparities among Women Authors Abstract: Despite extensive research on the impact of smoking on health, the temporal association between smoking and level of education and racial/ethnic groups remains unclear. We investigate how smoking initiation and cessation shape the racial heterogeneity in the trend of education gap in smoking prevalence among women across birth cohorts. With a sample of 336,732 women from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (1997-2018), we analyze the relative risks of initiation and cessation of smoking across birth cohorts by race/ethnicity and education using Cox proportional hazards models. The education gap in smoking prevalence has increased across cohorts most pronouncedly among White women, followed by Black and Hispanic women. White women show the most apparent widening education gap in the rate of smoking initiation across cohorts, which is due to the declining rate among individuals with a college degree and the soaring rate among those without a college degree. In contrast, among Black and Hispanic women, the rate of smoking initiation has declined in recent cohorts with a larger decline among those with a college degree. Meanwhile, smoking cessation rates have increased similarly across cohorts regardless of education level within each racial group. Therefore, the widening education gap in smoking prevalence across cohorts is not caused by the effect of a college degree on smoking cessation, but by the increasing education gap in smoking initiation. Since the initiation of smoking generally occurs before school completion, this reflects an increasing selection of smokers into cohorts without a college degree.   Shawnice Shankle – Title: High Body Mass Index and Depression in Gulf War and Post-9/11 Veterans – A Life Course View of Military-Related Trajectories Abstract: Subject Population. Military personnel must be physically and mentally fit to serve; high body mass index (BMI >25 kg/m2) or ongoing depressive symptoms interfere with service. This study’s objective is to explore the relationship between BMI and depressive symptoms in military and veteran populations. Research Design. Secondary analysis of the relationship between BMI and depressive symptoms in military and veteran populations across the lifespan, from adolescence into middle adulthood. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health, a nationally representative cohort that collected data from 1994-2018, is the data source. The Life Course Health Development (LCHD) model is the guiding framework, with emphasis on the origins of disease, embedding of exposures, and the model’s principles of complexity, unfolding, timing, trajectory, risk, and protective factors. Instrument. Veteran Status: affirmative response to military service questions. BMI: calculated from measured height and weight. Depressive Symptoms: truncated Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression screens for presence of depressive symptoms. Military Service Factors: service era (Gulf War, Post-9/11); rank (enlisted, officer); full- or part-time; branch; combat experience; length of service in years. Procedure. Multi-level growth curve models will create BMI and depression trajectories and permit examination of how interactions and military-service factors affect the trajectories.   Lawrence Stacey- Title: “Anti-LGBTQ State Policies and Population Health” Abstract: TBD       To attend by zoom, register in advance: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodOiqqzkoE9yMihkzNEciKq-sgHqf9DGH No registration necessary for in-person attendance.  Townshend 038 & Zoom Option Available Institute for Population Research popcenter@osu.edu America/New_York public

Graduate Student Flash Session - Young Choi, Sociology; Shawnice Shankle,
Nursing; Lawrence Stacey, Sociology

Yoonyoung Choi - Title: Onset and Cessation of Smoking: Temporal Dynamics and Racial Difference in Educational Smoking Disparities among Women Authors

Abstract: Despite extensive research on the impact of smoking on health, the temporal association between smoking and level of education and racial/ethnic groups remains unclear. We investigate how smoking initiation and cessation shape the racial heterogeneity in the trend of education gap in smoking prevalence among women across birth cohorts. With a sample of 336,732 women from the U.S. National Health Interview Survey (1997-2018), we analyze the relative risks of initiation and cessation of smoking across birth cohorts by race/ethnicity and education using Cox proportional hazards models. The education gap in smoking prevalence has increased across cohorts most pronouncedly among White women, followed by Black and Hispanic women. White women show the most apparent widening education gap in the rate of smoking initiation across cohorts, which is due to the declining rate among individuals with a college degree and the soaring rate among those without a college degree. In contrast, among Black and Hispanic women, the rate of smoking initiation has declined in recent cohorts with a larger decline among those with a college degree. Meanwhile, smoking cessation rates have increased similarly across cohorts regardless of education level within each racial group. Therefore, the widening education gap in smoking prevalence across cohorts is not caused by the effect of a college degree on smoking cessation, but by the increasing education gap in smoking initiation. Since the initiation of smoking generally occurs before school completion, this reflects an increasing selection of smokers into cohorts without a college degree.

 
Shawnice Shankle – Title: High Body Mass Index and Depression in Gulf War and Post-9/11 Veterans – A Life Course View of Military-Related Trajectories

Abstract: Subject Population. Military personnel must be physically and mentally fit to serve; high body mass index (BMI >25 kg/m2) or ongoing depressive symptoms interfere with service. This study’s objective is to explore the relationship between BMI and depressive symptoms in military and veteran populations.

Research Design. Secondary analysis of the relationship between BMI and depressive symptoms in military and veteran populations across the lifespan, from adolescence into middle adulthood. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health, a nationally representative cohort that collected data from 1994-2018, is the data source. The Life Course Health Development (LCHD) model is the guiding framework, with emphasis on the origins of disease, embedding of exposures, and the model’s principles of complexity, unfolding, timing, trajectory, risk, and protective factors.

Instrument. Veteran Status: affirmative response to military service questions. BMI: calculated from measured height and weight. Depressive Symptoms: truncated Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression screens for presence of depressive symptoms. Military Service Factors: service era (Gulf War, Post-9/11); rank (enlisted, officer); full- or part-time; branch; combat experience; length of service in years.
Procedure. Multi-level growth curve models will create BMI and depression trajectories and permit examination of how interactions and military-service factors affect the trajectories.
 

Lawrence Stacey- Title: “Anti-LGBTQ State Policies and Population Health”

Abstract: TBD

 

 
 

To attend by zoom, register in advance: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodOiqqzkoE9yMihkzNEciKq-sgHqf9DGH

No registration necessary for in-person attendance.