Korean Smoking Cessation and Depressive Symptoms Survey Data

South Korea's 2024 Community Health Survey provides data from 231,469 participants on smoking status and depressive symptoms. The cross-sectional dataset supports analysis of associations between smoking cessation duration, pack-years, and tobacco product type with Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between smoking status (never/current/former) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 depressive symptom scores.
• Model the relationship between cessation duration and odds of depressive symptoms among former smokers.
• Examine how cumulative tobacco exposure (pack-years) correlates with depressive symptom odds, segmented by gender.
• Compare odds of depressive symptoms between exclusive conventional cigarette users and dual users of conventional and electronic cigarettes.

Strengths

• Large sample of 231,469 participants from a nationwide survey.
• Includes key analytical variables: smoking status, cessation duration, pack-years, and tobacco product type.
• Depressive symptoms are measured using the standardized Patient Health Questionnaire-9 instrument.

Limitations

• Cross-sectional design prevents establishing causal relationships between smoking cessation and depressive symptoms.
• Data is contained within a PDF file (80.6 KB), requiring extraction for computational analysis.
• Findings are specific to the South Korean population in 2024, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

2024 Korea Community Health Survey

Collection Method

Nationwide cross-sectional survey, analyzed with multiple logistic regression.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

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Geography

South Korea