Determinants of Smoking Behaviour Among Secondary School Students in Bangladesh
Despite established country’s tobacco control law, cigarette smoking by the young people and the magnitude of nicotine dependence among the students is alarming in Bangladesh. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking and factors influencing it among the secondary school stude...
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| Format: | E-Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer US
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16745/1/Determinants%20of%20Smoking%20Behaviour%20Among%20Secondary%20School%20%28abstract%29.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16745/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10900-011-9382-6 |
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| Summary: | Despite established country’s tobacco control
law, cigarette smoking by the young people and the magnitude
of nicotine dependence among the students is
alarming in Bangladesh. This study was aimed to determine
the prevalence of smoking and factors influencing it
among the secondary school students. A two-stage cluster
sampling was used for selection of schools with probability
proportional to enrollment size followed by stratified random
sampling of government and private schools. The
70-item questionnaire included ‘core GYTS’ (Global
Youth Tobacco Survey) and other additional questions
were used to collect relevant information. Analysis showed
that the prevalence of smoking was 12.3% among boys and
4.5% among girls, respectively. The mean age at initiation
of smoking was 10.8 years with standard deviation of
2.7 years. Logistic regression analysis revealed that boys
are 2.282 times likely to smoked than girls and it was 1.786
times higher among the students aged 16 years and above
than their younger counterparts. Smoking by teachers
appeared to be the strong predictor for students smoking
behaviour (OR 2.206, 95% CI: 1.576, 3.088) followed by peer influence (OR 1.988, 95% CI: 1.178, 3.356). Effective
smoking prevention program should to be taken to reduce
smoking behaviour. The school curricula had less impact in
preventing smoking except teacher’s smoking behaviour. |
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