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Correlates of alcohol and tobacco use among Mexican immigrants in rural North Carolina.

Loury S, Kulbok P

School of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. lourys@ecu.edu

This study examined the relationship among sociodemographic, cultural, and psychological factors associated with alcohol and tobacco use among Mexican immigrants in the rural south. Questionnaires including sociodemographics, alcohol and tobacco use, acculturation, and stress were administered to 173 Mexican immigrants residing in rural eastern North Carolina. Gender, preimmigration use, and occupational/economic stress were significant predictors for alcohol use, with preimmigration use significant for tobacco use, suggesting that alcohol and tobacco use may be related to previous behavior, rather than acculturation to American society. Stress, setting, and preimmigration substance use would be important factors to address in the immigrant's health history.

Published 12 June 2007 in Fam Community Health, 30(3): 247-56.
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