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- Title
Personal and Family Factors Affecting Life time Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents in Tehran (Iran): A Community Based Study.
- Authors
Baheiraei, Azam; Hamzehgardeshi, Zeinab; Reza Mohammadi, Mohammad; Nedjat, Saharnaz; Mohammadi, Eesa
- Abstract
Objectives: The prevalence of smoking among adolescents varies in different parts of the world. The current study aims to survey the socio-demographic and family characteristics related to adolescent lifetime cigarette smoking among 1201 Iranian adolescents aged 15- 18 years old. Methods: This study is a population-based cross-sectional survey conducted using the multistage random cluster sampling method in Tehran, Iran in the summer of 2010. Results: The prevalence of lifetime cigarette use amongst boys (30.2%) was about 1.5 times that of girls (22.2%), (p=0.002). Older age, low parental control, very little parental supervision in the adolescent's selection of friends, and having a friend or family member who smokes were associated with lifetime cigarette use among male adolescents. Moreover, the use of verbal punishment by the parents was a protective factor for female lifetime cigarette use. Smoking has become one of the great health threats among Iranian adolescents. Conclusions: As a result, health promotion programs should be gender based whilst educational and interventional programs for preventing tobacco use should begin before adolescence.
- Subjects
IRAN; CHI-squared test; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTOR analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; SMOKING; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Oman Medical Journal, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 3, p184
- ISSN
1999-768X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5001/omj.2013.51