Determinants of Smoking Habit among Medical Students

Singh, Virendra; Singh, Zile; Banerjee, Amitav; Basannar,

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“…The study indicated that exposure to SHS from within the household was a smoking predictor in the bivariate analysis. Other studies have highlighted the impact of this exposure 20 21. In our study, however, after controlling for confounding factors of sex and age in the multivariate analysis, the significance of exposure to SHS was lost with only gender being a predictor of current smoking.…”

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Cross-sectional survey: smoking among medical, pharmacy, dental and nursing students, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR

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ObjectivesTo investigate the prevalence of and attitudes to smoking among third year medical, pharmacy, dentistry and nursing students in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR).DesignA cross-sectional survey conducted among third year university level, health professional students. The survey used a self-administered questionnaire which was originally developed by WHO, and modified to suit the setting.SettingThe setting was the University of Health Sciences in Vientiane, the capital of Lao PDR. Participants were recruited from the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing. At the time of the survey, 521 third year students were enrolled.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome measure was prevalence of current cigarette smoking and other tobacco use. Smoking status was categorised as: current smoker, ex-smoker and non-smoker with current smokers defined as those who had smoked cigarettes or used other tobacco on one or more days during the previous 30 days.ResultsIn total, 506 respondents completed the questionnaire, giving a response rate of 97.1% to 98.5% across the different faculties. Overall smoking prevalence was 5.07% (95% CI 3.2% to 7.1%), which is lower than previously reported national prevalence rates. Women reported smoking less than men did (OR=0.56, 95% CI=0.013 to 0.242; p=0.003). The majority of students supported tobacco control measures. The number of people who reported receiving formal training in tobacco cessation counselling ranged from 10.9% (95% CI 5.3% to 19.1%) among nursing students to 51.1% (95% CI 40.4% to 61.7%) among medical students.ConclusionsSmoking prevalence among this cohort was relatively low. Students were supportive of tobacco control policies. Further research is needed to understand what is working in this context, in order to apply lessons learnt in similar settings. In the meantime, health professional students should be provided health education to discourage tobacco use. Information on tobacco control policies needs to be more widely disseminated.

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“…Qualitative studies have also shown the cultural acceptability of the habit . Although parental influence and the contribution of parenting behavior patterns to smoking and alcohol habits have been widely investigated, the intergenerational transmission of the paan chewing habit has received less attention . In addition, most of the studies have marked methodological limitations.…”

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Maternal and paternal contribution to intergenerational psychosocial transmission of paan chewing

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Rousseau

Netuveli

et al. 2015

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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ABSTRACT:Objectives: Paan chewing is a recognized risk factor for oral cancer in the Asian population. However, there is currently little evidence about the intergenerational psychosocial transmission of paan chewing in South Indian families. We investigated the association between parental and participant's paan chewing in a South Indian population.Methods: A subset of data was drawn from a hospital-based case-control study on oral cancer, the HeNCe Life study, conducted at Government Dental and Medical Colleges of Kozhikode, South India. Analyses were based on 371 non-cancer control participants having diseases unrelated to known risk factors for oral cancer. Demographics, behavioural habits (e.g., paan chewing, smoking), and indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) of both participants and their parents were collected with the use of a questionnaire-based interview and a life grid technique. Unconditional logistic regression assessed odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI) for the associations between parental and participant's paan chewing, adjusted for confounders.Results: Over half of the participants were male (55.2%) and the mean age of participants was 59 (SD=12) years. After adjusting for age, religion, parents' SEP, parents' education, smoking and alcohol consumption, and perceived parenting behaviour we observed that maternal and paternal paan chewing were significantly associated with the participant's paan chewing (OR=2.40, 95%CI=1.11-5.21) and (OR=3.05, 95%CI=1.48-6.27), respectively. Conclusions:Intergenerational psychosocial transmission of the habit of paan chewing could occur through shared socio-cultural or environmental factors.

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“…2,6,10,11 But some other studies have shown very high prevalence rate among male medical students. 3,[12][13][14][15] One school based study among 13-18 years age group showed prevalence as little as 1.5%. 16 Another study done in Karachi among adolescents found the prevalence as 13.7%.…”

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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Current Smoking Among Medical Students in Coastal South India

Kumar

Subba

Unnikrishnan

et al. 2012

Kathmandu Univ. Med. J.

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Determinants of Smoking Habit among Medical Students

Cited by 21 publications

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Cross-sectional survey: smoking among medical, pharmacy, dental and nursing students, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR

Cross-sectional survey: smoking among medical, pharmacy, dental and nursing students, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR

Maternal and paternal contribution to intergenerational psychosocial transmission of paan chewing

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Current Smoking Among Medical Students in Coastal South India

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