Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, March 2022 / Vol. 71 / No. SS-5

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• Alternative Title:
  Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2021
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Gentzke, Andrea S. ; Wang, Teresa W. ; Cornelius, Monica ; Park-Lee, Eunice ; Ren, Chunfeng ; Sawdey, Michael D. ; Cullen, Karen A. ; Loretan, Caitlin ; Jamal, Ahmed ; Homa, David M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Office on Smoking and Health ; Center for Tobacco Products (United States Food and Drug Administration)
• Description:
  Commercial tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. Most tobacco product use begins during adolescence. In recent years, tobacco products have evolved to include various combusted, smokeless, and electronic products. The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is an annual, cross-sectional, school-based, self-administered survey of U.S. middle school (grades 6–8) and high school (grades 9–12) students. A three-stage cluster sampling procedure is used to generate a nationally representative sample of U.S. students attending public and private schools. NYTS is the only nationally representative survey of U.S. middle and high school students that focuses exclusively on tobacco use patterns and associated factors. NYTS provides data to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive youth tobacco use prevention and control programs and to guide tobacco regulatory activities. Since 2019, NYTS has been administered electronically via tablet computers. Because of emergency COVID-19 protocols that were in place across the United States during the 2021 NYTS fielding window (January 18–May 21, 2021), the 2021 survey was administered using a web URL to allow participation by eligible students learning under varying instructional models (in-person, distance/virtual, and hybrid). In total, 50.8% of student respondents reported completing the survey in a school building or classroom and 49.2% at home or some other place. CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analyzed data from the 2021 NYTS to assess tobacco product use patterns and associated factors among U.S. middle and high school students. Overall, 20,413 students (out of 25,149 sampled students; student response rate: 81.2%) completed the questionnaire from 279 schools (out of 508 sampled schools; school response rate: 54.9%). The overall response rate, defined as the product of the student and school response rates, was 44.6%. The sample was weighted to represent approximately 11.97 million middle school students and 15.44 million high school students. Students with missing information about grade level were excluded from the school-level analyses (n = 135).
  
  Suggested citation for this article: Gentzke AS, Wang TW, Cornelius M, et al. Tobacco Product Use and Associated Factors Among Middle and High School Students — National Youth Tobacco Survey, United States, 2021. MMWR Surveill Summ 2022;71(No. SS-5):1–29.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Exploratory Behavior Humans Schools Smoking Surveys And Questionnaires Tobacco Products
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2022; v. 71, no. 5
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss7105a1
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  35271557
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8923300
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Name as Subject:
  National Youth Tobacco Survey
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  32 pdf pages
• Volume:
  71
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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  urn:sha-512:cba99f7f330a0d8287deb5fe4d241d95f4850ea75ae723090b49c65188cabf811d8745f56469ba545088d31be92d4c0c7198f1fa3c7ac272c1fd46df237ee0e9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115854/cdc_115854_DS1.pdf
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