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Table 2 Characteristics of included studies

From: Perceptions of friendship, peers and influence on adolescent smoking according to tobacco control context: a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative research

Author and year

Year of data collection

Participant characteristics

Country

Quality assessment

Age

Number

Socioeconomic status

Amos et al. (2007) [25]

2002

Range 15–16 years

46 ( 24 females and 22 males)

4 focus groups from middle class (ABC1) and 4 from working class (C2DE)

UK (Scotland)

HIGH

Arora et al. (2010) [26]

2005

Range 10–19 years

37 (6 females and 31 males)

2 low SES communities

India

MEDIUM

Baheiraei et al. (2018) [27]

2012

Range 15–18 years

11 females

Not recorded

Iran

MEDIUM

Baillie et al. (2005) [28]

2000-1

Range 14–18 years, mean 16 years

35 (17 females and 18 males)

Not recorded

Canada (British Columbia)

HIGH

Craciun et al. (2008) [29]

2005-6

Range14-15 years

30 (15 females and 15 males)

Not recorded

Romania

LOW

Denscombe et al. (2001) [30]

1997-8

Range 15–16 years

123 Focus groups, 20 interviews

Not recorded

UK (England)

HIGH

Denscombe et al. (2001b) [31]

1997-8

Range 15–16 years

123 Focus groups, 20 interviews

Not recorded

UK (England)

HIGH

Dijk et al. (2007) [32]

2003

Range15-17 years

101

Not recorded

Netherlands

MEDIUM

El Kazdouh et al. (2018) [33]

2016

Range 14–16 years

100

2 schools - one classed as “advantaged”, the other as “disadvantaged”

Morocco

HIGH

Fithria (2021) [34]

2019

Range 12–18 years

24 male students

Schools located in regions with a poverty level of 15.41%

Indonesia

LOW

Fraga et al. (2011) [35]

2003-4

Mean/range 13 years

30 (15 females and 15 males)

Not recorded

Portugal

LOW

Haines et al. (2009) [36]

2005-6

Range 16–19 years

25

No data collected but researchers say that most appeared to be mid to high SES

Canada (Toronto)

MEDIUM

Hong et al. (2015) [37]

2013

Range 13–18 years

12

Not recorded

Taiwan

MEDIUM

Ioannou et al. (2010) [38]

2002

Range 15–17 years

25 (13 females and 12 males)

States ‘diverse socioeconomic backgrounds’

Cyprus

MEDIUM

Jafari (2022) [39]

2020

Mean 16 years

20 females

Not recorded

Iran

MEDIUM

Johnson et al. (2003) [40]

2000-1

1st phase mean = 16, range 14–18; 2nd and 3rd phases mean = 16, range 13–19 years

1st phase 47 (29 females and 18 males); 2nd and 3rd phases − 25 (14 females and 11 males).

Not recorded

Canada (Vancouver)

HIGH

Lewis et al. (2013) [41]

2009

Range 11–18 years

52 (30 females and 22 males)

‘Disadvantaged community’ - “The youth club featured is situated in a former coal-mining village which, according to the index of multiple deprivation score (North East Public Health Observatory 2007), is amongst the 10 per cent most deprived wards in a county that is one of the most deprived in England. Unemployment levels are in the highest quintile (Durham County Council 2012) for the county.”

UK (England)

HIGH

Milton et al. (2008) [42]

2001

Range 9–11 years

76

Over half of the cohort lived in low-income families, and 82% lived in the most deprived quartile (the poorest quarter of addresses) in the northwest of England as calculated using Townsend’s indices of deprivation.

UK (England)

HIGH

Mishra et al. (2005) [43]

2002

Range 10–16 years

435 (181 females and 254 males)

Government run schools with low-medium SES; private schools with medium-high SES were included.

India

HIGH

Mitschke et al. (2008) [44]

2006

Range 10–14 years

54 (35 females and 19 males)

Not recorded

USA (Hawaii)

MEDIUM

Mutaz (2020) [45]

unknown

Range 12–16 years

103 males

Not recorded

Saudi Arabia

MEDIUM

Niknami et al. (2008) [46]

2004-5

Range 10–47 years

62 (92% male)

Not recorded

Iran

HIGH

Nwafor et al. (2012) [47]

2008

Not recorded

40 male

Not recorded

Nigeria

LOW

Perez-Milena et al. (2011) [48]

2008-9

Range 12–18 years

44 (6 focus groups ranging from 17-78% female)

Within the six focus groups, there were between 0–33% composition of the lowest socioeconomic group, between 42–83% middle and 11–50% highest.

Spain

MEDIUM

Peterson et al. (2019) [49]

2012-13

Range 12–16 years

81

Students are rated high/medium/low SES but no info on how this has been done.

Uruguay

MEDIUM

Plano Clark et al. (2002) [50]

1999

Mean 16 years

205 (plus 66 student co-researchers)

Not recorded

USA (Newbraska)

HIGH

Plumridge et al. (2002) [51]

1999

Range 14–15 years

42

School of relatively high socio-economic catchment (decile 8 ranking)

New Zealand

MEDIUM

Povlsen et al. (2018) [52]

2013

Range 13–16 years

71 (36 females and 35 males)

2 public and 2 private schools/castes recorded

Nepal

MEDIUM

Rothwell et al. (2011) [53]

2007

Mean 17 years, range 14–17 years

28

Not recorded

USA (Utah)

MEDIUM

Sanchez Martinez et al. (2008) [54]

2005

Range 16–17 years

14

Not recorded

Mexico

LOW

Schreuders et al. (2019) [55]

2016-17

Ranges: focus groups: 14–17 years old; interviews 15–18 years old

22 for focus groups; 14 for interviews

1 vocational school and one mid-level theoretical school

Netherlands

HIGH

Stewart-Knox et al. (2005) [56]

1997–2000

Ranges: Year 1: 11–12 years old; year 2: 12–13 years old; year 3: 13–14 + years

Year 1: 102 (52 females;50 males); Year 2: 51 (28 females;23 males); Year 3: 39 (22 females; 17 males)

Not recorded

UK (Northern Ireland)

HIGH

Stjerna et al. (2004) [57]

1999

Range 14–15 years

43 (25 females and 18 males)

Schools had ‘average SES structure’

Sweden

MEDIUM

Talip et al. (2016) [58]

2015

Mean 14 years, range 13–17 years

43 males

Not recorded

Brunei

MEDIUM

Tamvakas et al. (2010) [59]

2009

Mean 15 years, range 14–16 years

31 (14 females and 17 males)

Not recorded

Greece

MEDIUM

Tohid et al. (2011) [60]

2008-10

Mean/range 16 years

26 (3 females and 23 males)

Not recorded

Malaysia

MEDIUM

Treacy et al. (2007) [61]

1997

Longitudinal - yearly from 11–12 to 15–16 years

1st round 78(44 females and 34 males); 2nd round 48; 3rd round 19; 4th rounds 33

Most of sample from working-class areas of Dublin

Republic of Ireland

HIGH

Turner et al. (2006) [62]

2000-1

Mean/range 13 years

136

Both schools served disadvantaged populations

UK (Scotland)

HIGH

Vasquez et al. (2018) [63]

2015

Range 9–19 years

49 (60% males)

90% eligible for free school lunch

USA (Texas)

HIGH

Woodgate et al. (2015) [64]

2007-10

Mean 14.5 years, range 11–19 years

75

72% identified as middle class

Canada (Western Canadian Province)

HIGH

Yuksel et al. (2005) [65]

2001-2

Median 16 years

52 youth (19 females and 33 males) + 24 adults (teachers/school counsellors/parents)

Not reported

Turkey

MEDIUM