Social Support and Parental Perception in Smoking and Non-smoking Adolescents

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the association between functional social support and perception of one’s relationship with one’s parents in smoking and non-smoking adolescents. Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study conducted at the Family Medicine Unit (fmu) no. 64 of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (imss) from March to May of 2018; there were 250 adolescent participants ranging from thirteen to seventeen years of age, they answered the Argentina scale of perception of their relationship with their parents and a questionnaire of functional social support from Duke-unc. A descriptive statistical analysis was carried out, with frequency and related variables calculated by means of χ².Results: the relationship between function social support and being a smoker or non-smoker was reported to have a χ²of 0.733 with a p=0.392; the association of the perception of one’s relationship with one’s father or mother related to being a smoker or non-smoker registered a χ² of 2.147 y 3.129 respectively, with a value of p >0.05 for both cases. Conclusions: there is not a statistically significant relationship between functional social support and the perception of one’s relationship with their parents as related to smoking in the evaluated adolescents.