Psychological Problems and Psychosocial Predictors of Cigarette Smoking Behavior among Undergraduate Students in Malaysia

Saravanan, Coumaravelou; Heidhy, Imran

doi:10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.18.7629

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“…Regarding poor mental health, violence and addictive risk behaviours, this study found in agreement with previous studies (Halperin et al, 2010;Caleyachetty et al, 2014;Saravanan and Heidhy, 2014) that depressive symptoms, substance use (binge drinking, illicit drug use) and intimate partner violence (hit by sexual partner) were associated with current tobacco use. It appears that poor mental health, violence experiences and substance use may synergistically interact to increase tobacco use.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…In this large study of university students from 24 low, middle income and emerging economy countries it was found that the prevalence of current tobacco use was largely similar to previous studies among university students in Egypt (El Ansari et al, 2012), Nigeria (Ndom and Adelekan, 1996;Fawibe and Shittu, 2011), Pakistan (Rozi et al, 2007), Thailand (Steptoe et al, 2002), and other developing countries, including Iran (Haghdoost and Moosazadeh, 2013) and Malaysia (Saravanan and Heidhy, 2014). In the study countries of Columbia and Venezuela lower rates of current tobacco use were found as compared to a survey in 2001 (Steptoe et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…In other university student populations in low and middle income countries, current tobacco use or smoking was 9% in Egypt (El Ansari et al, 2012), 33% in India (Mehrotra et al, 2010), 19.8% of male and 2.2% of female students in Iran (Moosazadeh et al, 2013), 14.7% in Malaysia (Saravanan and Heidhy, 2014), 5.7% (males 7.7%, females 2.0%) in Nigeria (Fawibe and Shittu, 2011), among male 24% in Pakistan (Rozi et al, 2007) Poor risk awareness and beliefs about the negative effects of tobacco use may influence the level of consumption of tobacco in different population groups, including young adults (Steptoe et al, 2002;Merdad et al, 2007;Gupta and Kumar, 2014). Several studies among youth found relatively high awareness that smoking tobacco causes serious illness (>90% in 12 of 14 countries) (Gupta and Kumar, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Factors associated with current tobacco use have been identified, in part, as follows: i) sociodemographic factors such as being male (Sen and Basu, 2000;Peltzer, 2001;Sinha and Gupta, 2007), older age (Peltzer, 2001) and lower socioeconomic status (Rozi et al, 2007;Mergen et al, 2011;Thakur et al, 2013); ii) beliefs and risk awareness, the importance to health of not smoking was associated with smoking status (non-smoking versus smoking) (Peltzer, 2001;Steptoe et al, 2002); iii) Poor mental health (depression, anxiety) (Halperin et al, 2010;Saravanan and Heidhy, 2014) and substance use, including risky drinking (Halperin et al, 2010;Mergen et al 2011) and illicit drug use (El Ansari et al, 2012); iv) violence experience, including intimate partner violence (Caleyachetty et al, 2014) and reported abuse (Halperin et al, 2010), and v) obesity (El Ansari et al, 2012). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness and psychosocial correlates of tobacco use among university students in 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries.…”

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Tobacco Use, Beliefs and Risk Awareness in University Students from 24 Low, Middle and Emerging Economy Countries

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Pengpid²

2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness and psychosocial correlates of tobacco use among university students in 24 low, middle and emerging economy countries. Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 16953 undergraduate university students (mean age 20.9, SD=2.9) from 25 universities in 24 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Results indicate that overall 13.3% of the university students were current tobacco users, 22.4% for men and 6.6% for women, ranging from 3.8% in Singapore to 32.5% in Cameroon. The risk awareness of the smoking lung cancer link was 83.6%, while the risk awareness of the smoking heart disease link was 46.5%. Multivariate logistic regression found that older age, male gender, having a wealthy family background, living in a low income country, residing off campus on their own, poor beliefs in the importance not to smoke, awareness of the smoking heart disease link, hit by a sexual partner, depressive symptoms, and substance use (binge drinking and illicit drug use) were associated with current tobacco use.

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Tobacco Use, Beliefs and Risk Awareness in University Students from 24 Low, Middle and Emerging Economy Countries

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2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…The present study categorizations of smokers are based on previous studies, but this criterion is less likely sufficient to warrant the shisha dependency (Saravanan and Heidhy, 2014). So this study recommends to clinically interviewing the smokers to confirm their shisha dependency levels.…”

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A Cross Sectional Study on Knowledge, Beliefs and Psychosocial Predictors of Shisha Smoking among University Students in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Saravanan

Attlee

Sulaiman

2019

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev

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Background:Smoking is now prohibited in all educational institutions and other public places in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), but shisha smoking is considered as one of the major problems among the students population. This study aimed to identify the (a) prevalence of ever shisha, current shisha and shisha dependency smokers among university students in the University of Sharjah (UOS), (b) knowledge and belief differences among ever shisha, current shisha as well as shisha dependency smoking students, (c) relationship between precipitating factors and shisha dependency and (d) precipitating factors (stimulation, handling, pleasure, tension reduction, addiction (dependency), automatism (habit) and social interaction, parents smoking behavior, knowledge and beliefs about smoking predict shisha dependency among students in UOS.Materials and Methods:In this cross sectional study, 633 students participated from UOS, UAE. Knowledge and Belief scale, Modified Reason for Smoking Scale and Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) were used to measure knowledge, beliefs, shisha dependency and predictive factors of smoking behavior among undergraduate students in UOS.Results:Nearly103 (16.3%) of students were addictive to shisha smoking based on FTND. Students had adequate knowledge that smoking led to cardiac problems; however, their knowledge about the other consequences of smoking was inadequate and believed that smoking was not harmful. There was a significant positive relationship between addiction, pleasure, social interaction, habit, parental smoking behavior and shisha dependency behavior among current shisha dependency students. Habit, addiction, pleasure, social interaction and parental smoking were the predictors of shisha smoking dependency among this population. Step wise multiple regressions showed that social interaction was the highest significant predictor for shisha dependency behavior.Conclusions:Hence, there is a need to enhance the knowledge and modify irrational beliefs about shisha smoking as these students possess inadequate knowledge about consequences of shisha smoking.

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Level of Awareness of Various Aspects of Lung Cancer Among College Teachers in India: Impact of Cancer Awareness Programmes in Prevention and Early Detection

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Lung cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer mortality among men in India and incidence is increasing, but actually, they are largely preventable diseases. In India, advanced stage at the time of presentation is responsible for high mortality and morbidity and early detection is the only way to reduce it. The purpose of this study is to know the level of awareness of various aspects of lung cancer among college teachers and impact of awareness programmes in its prevention and early detection. This assessment was part of Pink Chain Campaign-a campaign on cancer awareness. During the cancer awareness events in 2011-2013 at various women colleges in different parts in India, pre-test related to lung cancer was followed by awareness programme. Post-test using the same questionnaire was conducted at the end of interactive session, at 6 months and 1 year. A total of 872 out of 985 teachers participated in the study (overall response rate was 88.5 %). Mean age of the study population was 41.6 years (range 26-59 years). There was a significant increase in the level of knowledge regarding lung cancer at 6 months, and this was sustained at 1 year. Among teachers who were just asked yes or no question, 117 teachers (13.4 %) were smokers and 241 teachers (27.6 %) were alcoholics. Magazines and newspapers were sources for knowledge in 50-60 % of teachers, whereas approximately 30 % of teachers were educated by TV and Internet regarding various aspects of lung cancer. Post awareness at 6 months and 1 year, Pink Chain Campaign was the major source of knowledge related to lung cancer in more than 90 % of teachers by continuous and timely update on subject. Post awareness at 6 months and 1 year, there was a significant change in alcohol and smoking habits. Major reasons for not going for check-up were ignorance (83.1 %), fear (30.1 %) and lethargic attitude (29.3 %) initially, but over time, lack of time, lethargic attitude and hesitation became important factors after knowing various aspects of lung cancer. Knowledge of lung cancer was very low among teachers. Overall awareness of risk factors, sign and symptoms, screening modalities of lung cancer has improved in a year along with practices related to smoking and alcohol, but there was not much improvement in people undergoing regular check-ups. To inculcate safe practices in the lifestyle of people, awareness programmes such as the Pink Chain Campaign should be conducted more widely and frequently.

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Psychological Problems and Psychosocial Predictors of Cigarette Smoking Behavior among Undergraduate Students in Malaysia

Cited by 32 publications

References 29 publications

Tobacco Use, Beliefs and Risk Awareness in University Students from 24 Low, Middle and Emerging Economy Countries

Tobacco Use, Beliefs and Risk Awareness in University Students from 24 Low, Middle and Emerging Economy Countries

A Cross Sectional Study on Knowledge, Beliefs and Psychosocial Predictors of Shisha Smoking among University Students in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Level of Awareness of Various Aspects of Lung Cancer Among College Teachers in India: Impact of Cancer Awareness Programmes in Prevention and Early Detection

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