Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
ABSTRACT Background:Smoking is the single most important cause of death. The use of tobacco in cigarettes among smokers is the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity. Objective: The aim of the study is to determine socioeconomic factors associated with smoking among rural adult...
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Background:Smoking is the single most important cause of death. The use of tobacco in cigarettes among smokers is the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity.
Objective: The aim of the study is to determine socioeconomic factors associated with smoking among rural adult population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Methods:A cross sectional study was carried out from 1,136 respondents by using a questionnaire which waspre-tested, and face to face interview was conducted. The questionnaire was divided into 5 separate sections which were socio-demographics characteristics, tobacco use patterns, peers and family influences, knowledge related to smoking and perception on anti-smoking programme.A multistage random sampling method was used to obtain the sample size. The target population was from District of Jempol, a rural District in state of Negeri Sembilan.
Result:Out of 1,136 eligible respondents, a total of 998 respondents have participated in this study which made the response rate 87.85 percent.The findings showed that 45.3% of the respondents were smoker. The age range of respondents wasbetween 45 and 64 years old. 51.8% are male,married (64.6%), and with education level of secondary school (47.9%) and majority of them were Malay (95.6%) and Muslim (95.9%). Main occupation is lorry drivers (41.3%), and 96.1% of the respondents with income between RM1000-1999 (96.1%).The
findings showed that the followings are important factors influencing smoking behavior among respondents: friend influence (β= 4.347, P-value= 0.001), employment status (β=
3.574, P-value= 0.001), family member (β= 2.123, P-value= 0.001), income (β= 2.066, Pvalue= 0.011), advertisement (β= 1.452, P-value= 0.001), marital status (β= 1.050, P-value=
0.001), education level (β= -0.549, P-value= 0.036) and knowledge (β= -2.759, P-value= 0.001).Social factors aremore important than economic factors.
Conclusion:The study concluded that both social and economics factor play important role influencing respondents smoking behavior and social factors play more important role.
Keywords:Smoking, Socioeconomic factors, Adult, Rural. |
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| spelling | my.unimas.ir-511642026-01-06T00:38:07Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/51164/ Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia Rubiah, Ajan Muhamad Hanafiah, Juni HS, Minhat Aidalina, M Q Science (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine ABSTRACT Background:Smoking is the single most important cause of death. The use of tobacco in cigarettes among smokers is the leading cause of premature mortality and morbidity. Objective: The aim of the study is to determine socioeconomic factors associated with smoking among rural adult population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Methods:A cross sectional study was carried out from 1,136 respondents by using a questionnaire which waspre-tested, and face to face interview was conducted. The questionnaire was divided into 5 separate sections which were socio-demographics characteristics, tobacco use patterns, peers and family influences, knowledge related to smoking and perception on anti-smoking programme.A multistage random sampling method was used to obtain the sample size. The target population was from District of Jempol, a rural District in state of Negeri Sembilan. Result:Out of 1,136 eligible respondents, a total of 998 respondents have participated in this study which made the response rate 87.85 percent.The findings showed that 45.3% of the respondents were smoker. The age range of respondents wasbetween 45 and 64 years old. 51.8% are male,married (64.6%), and with education level of secondary school (47.9%) and majority of them were Malay (95.6%) and Muslim (95.9%). Main occupation is lorry drivers (41.3%), and 96.1% of the respondents with income between RM1000-1999 (96.1%).The findings showed that the followings are important factors influencing smoking behavior among respondents: friend influence (β= 4.347, P-value= 0.001), employment status (β= 3.574, P-value= 0.001), family member (β= 2.123, P-value= 0.001), income (β= 2.066, Pvalue= 0.011), advertisement (β= 1.452, P-value= 0.001), marital status (β= 1.050, P-value= 0.001), education level (β= -0.549, P-value= 0.036) and knowledge (β= -2.759, P-value= 0.001).Social factors aremore important than economic factors. Conclusion:The study concluded that both social and economics factor play important role influencing respondents smoking behavior and social factors play more important role. Keywords:Smoking, Socioeconomic factors, Adult, Rural. The Community Health Society Malaysia (CHSM) 2016-05 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/51164/1/SOCIOECONOMIC%20UPM.pdf Rubiah, Ajan and Muhamad Hanafiah, Juni and HS, Minhat and Aidalina, M (2016) Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. International Journal of Public Health and Clinical Sciences, 3 (3). pp. 122-131. ISSN 2289-7577 https://publichealthmy.org/ejournal/ojs2/index.php/ijphcs/article/view/310 |
| spellingShingle | Q Science (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Rubiah, Ajan Muhamad Hanafiah, Juni HS, Minhat Aidalina, M Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title | Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural
Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title_full | Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural
Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural
Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural
Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title_short | Socioeconomic Factors Associate with Smoking among Rural
Adult Population in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia |
| title_sort | socioeconomic factors associate with smoking among rural
adult population in negeri sembilan, malaysia |
| topic | Q Science (General) RA Public aspects of medicine RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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