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- Title
Knowledge, attitude, and practices of smoking habits among transgender living in Chennai city.
- Authors
Mathivadani, V.; Ganapathy, Dhanraj; Duraisamy, Revathi
- Abstract
Aim: This study aims to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practices of smoking habits among transgender living in Chennai city. Background: Smoking is highly prevalent among transgender persons and contributes to health disparities. Guided by the theory of planned behavior, we identified beliefs related to attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms, as well as transgender-specific variables, to explain variance in intention to quit smoking in transgender smokers. Many studies in the past 20 years have documented that transgender individuals smoke at rates that exceed the general population; yet, there have been few reports of smoking cessation interventions targeting this population. Stress, patronage of bars and clubs, and higher instances of alcohol use among the transgender community contribute to higher smoking rates. Results: From this result, it shows that 45% were not interested to control smoking, 44% were agreed that tobacco companies were using them to use the tobacco products, 65.1% were not care about the health warnings in the cigarette packets, 71% were not visited doctors to quit smoking, and 69.4% were not aware of oral gum and bone problems due to smoking. Smoking habit among transgender is more compared to others in Chennai city. Conclusion: No transgenderspecific factors emerged as significant. It is hoped that this study will stimulate the development of interventions that improve the health of a vulnerable subpopulation and reduce health disparities based on sexual orientation.
- Subjects
SMOKING cessation; CIGARETTE smokers; SMOKELESS tobacco; TRANSGENDER people; ELECTRONIC cigarettes
- Publication
Drug Invention Today, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2, p344
- ISSN
0975-7619
- Publication type
Article