Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Owusu-Sarpong, Akosua; Agbeshie, Kwame

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“…In this study, adolescents stated that factors such as the importance of the role of friends, having female smoker friends, imitation of friends, and interacting with smokers were effective in their tendency to smoke. The results of the Owusu-Sarpong study showed that smoking of close friends is effective in adolescents starting to smoke [ 29 ]. The results of various studies have shown that smoking by close friends, belonging to a smoking group, pressure from friends/peer group were the influencing factors of adolescent smoking.…”

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“…In this study, adolescents reported that factors such as family problems, parental divorce, stressful family environment, inappropriate the role modeling of mothers, use of hookah by parents, lack of proper communication between parents and adolescent, inattention, and parents’ neglect of their child’s smoking were effective in their tendency to smoke. The results of the Owusu-Sarpong study showed that parental divorce is one of the effective factors in tendency of adolescents to smoke [ 29 ]. The results of another study on women showed that family factors, including whether there are smokers in the family, family problems, and family constraints were effective in adolescents’ tendency to smoke [ 33 ].…”

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Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis

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Background The aim of this study was to explain the socio-cultural and environmental factors of smoking tendency in female adolescents. Methods This qualitative content analysis study was conducted among Iranian female adolescents in Mashhad, Iran. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 20 female smokers. The duration of each interview varies from 30 to 70 min. Data collection and management of data were done using MAXQADA software version 10. Results In exploration the effective socio-cultural and environmental factors in the tendency of female adolescents to smoking, six subcategories of role modeling of friends, membership in groups, parenting patterns, family modeling, the predisposing community, and the negative impact of the media were extracted. Conclusions The results obtained in this study indicated that there is a need to formulate policies and adopt environmental and social laws to reduce smoking. The results also showed the effective role of parents in improving personal skills, creating a stress-free environment in the family, and controlling adolescent behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to all social and cultural aspects in order to make the smoking prevention programs.

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Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis

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“…Of the total articles, 24 studies were from western sub‐Saharan Africa [5, 32–53], 15 studies were from southern sub‐Saharan Africa [54–68] and 12 studies were from eastern sub‐Saharan Africa [6, 69–79]. Two studies were conducted in multiple regions [11, 80] (Table 1).…”

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Cannabis use in sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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Background and Aims: The most available data on the prevalence of cannabis use come from population surveys conducted in high-income countries in North America, Oceania and Europe. Less is known about the prevalence of cannabis use in Africa. This systematic review aimed to summarize general population-level cannabis use in sub-Saharan Africa since 2010.Methods: A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO and AJOL databases in addition to Global Health Data Exchange and grey literature without language restriction. Search terms related to 'substance', 'Substance-Related Disorders' and 'Prevalence' and 'Africa South of the Sahara' were used. Studies that reported cannabis use in the general population were selected, while studies from clinical populations and high-risk groups were excluded. Prevalence data on cannabis use in the general population of adolescents (10-17 years) and adults (≥ 18 years) in sub-Saharan Africa were extracted. Results:The study included 53 studies for the quantitative meta-analysis and included 13 239 participants. Among adolescents, the life-time, 12-month and 6-month prevalence of cannabis use were 7.9% [95% confidence interval (CI) = 5.4-10.9%], 5.2% (95% CI = 1.7-10.3%) and 4.5% (95% CI = 3.3-5.8%), respectively. The corresponding lifetime, 12-month and 6-month prevalence of cannabis use among adults were 12.6% (95% CI = 6.1-21.2%), 2.2% (95% CI = 1.7-2.7%, with data only available from Tanzania and Uganda) and 4.7% (95% CI = 3.3-6.4%), respectively. The male-to-female life-time cannabis use relative risk was 1.90 (95% CI = 1.25-2.98) among adolescents and 1.67

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“…Many smokers are initiated into the habit between the ages of 13 and 15 years [ 2 ]. Adolescent smokers are a source of public health importance because many are at risk of future morbidity later in life [ 1 , 5 , 14 ]. In 2000, globally about a third of population aged 15 years and older was used tobacco; whereas this declined to 24.9% by 2015.…”

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“…Many students will start smoking at college or university. Previous findings have that use of tobacco was affected by age, male sex, place of residence, fraternity, type of family, being unmarried, family income, pocket money, alcohol use, ever khat use, year of study, having friend and family member who smokes, tension reduction, pleasure, number of sticks smoked daily, and peer pressure [ 2 , 4 , 14 , 18 - 22 , 27 ].…”

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Cigarette smoking prevalence and associated factors among college students, Amhara, Ethiopia

Telayneh¹,

Gedefaw²,

Haile³

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Pan Afr Med J

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Introduction tobacco is the only legal drug that kills many of its users when used exactly as intended by the manufacturers. It is estimated that of the 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, nearly 80% of them live in low and middle-income countries. This trend increases in college and university students with most smokers starting to smoke during adolescent. The aim of this study is to assess cigarette smoking prevalence and associated factors among a select group of college of teachers´ education students. Methods a cross-sectional study was conducted. Multistage sampling was used to select 605 study participants from across the eight departments of the Injibara College of Teachers´ Education. Each subject was selected by simple random sampling technique after proportional allocation to each class. EpiData version 4.2 was used for data entry and Stata version 14 was used for data cleaning and analysis. Variables with p-value < 0.2 in bi-variable analysis were selected for multi-variable analysis. Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was reported to show the strength of association. Results the current prevalence of cigarette smoking is 6.8% amongst the Injibara College of Teachers´ Education students. Males [AOR: 2.84 (95% CI: 1.13, 7.14)], divorced marital status [AOR: 7.27 (95% CI: 1.23, 42.85)], food source in hostel [AOR: 11.62 (95% CI 3.23, 41.71)] and exposure to family/other smokers [AOR: 6.17 (95% CI: 2.17, 16.06)] were statistically significant factors for cigarette smoking. Conclusion the prevalence of cigarette smoking was relatively low. Male, marital status, source of food, and exposure to family/other smokers were identified associated factors. Policy makers and health regulatory body are strongly encouraged to consider this evidence and the associated factors for smoking in their efforts to develop and implement tobacco control laws.

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Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis

Exploration the role of social, cultural and environmental factors in tendency of female adolescents to smoking based on the qualitative content analysis

Cannabis use in sub‐Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Cigarette smoking prevalence and associated factors among college students, Amhara, Ethiopia

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