Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents
Background and objective: Cigarette smoking in adolescent population seems a major public health issue. The goal of the present study was to identify the effect of socio-personal factors on transitions in the adolescent smoking. Methods: A total of 1785 students were assessed twice during 12 months...
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| author | A Mohammadpoorasl A Fakhari F Rostami M Shamsipour |
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| description | Background and objective: Cigarette smoking in adolescent population seems a major public health issue. The goal of the present study was to identify the effect of socio-personal factors on transitions in the adolescent smoking.
Methods: A total of 1785 students were assessed twice during 12 months. with respect to stage of change. The predictor variables were measured when the students were in the 10th grade. Logistic regression was used to predict different smoking stages at grade 11.Results: At the end of follow-up, 14.3 percent of non-smokers have had smoking experiment, and 16.5 percent of smokers have showed to be the regular smokers. Among non smokers, using alcohol, friendship with smoker group were predictors of being regular smokers.
Conclusion: Smoking prevention program should begin in adolescent age group. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-948f723d5e41423ab1dc8ad1671c784e2022-12-22T04:07:43ZfasTehran University of Medical Sciencesمجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران1735-74892228-75072010-03-015417Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in AdolescentsA Mohammadpoorasl0A Fakhari 1F Rostami 2M Shamsipour 3 Background and objective: Cigarette smoking in adolescent population seems a major public health issue. The goal of the present study was to identify the effect of socio-personal factors on transitions in the adolescent smoking. Methods: A total of 1785 students were assessed twice during 12 months. with respect to stage of change. The predictor variables were measured when the students were in the 10th grade. Logistic regression was used to predict different smoking stages at grade 11.Results: At the end of follow-up, 14.3 percent of non-smokers have had smoking experiment, and 16.5 percent of smokers have showed to be the regular smokers. Among non smokers, using alcohol, friendship with smoker group were predictors of being regular smokers. Conclusion: Smoking prevention program should begin in adolescent age group.http://irje.tums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-25-95&slc_lang=en&sid=1Adolescents، Smoking uptake، Environmental factor، Tabriz |
| spellingShingle | A Mohammadpoorasl A Fakhari F Rostami M Shamsipour Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران Adolescents، Smoking uptake، Environmental factor، Tabriz |
| title | Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents |
| title_full | Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents |
| title_fullStr | Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents |
| title_short | Survey of Transition in Different Stages of Cigarette Smoking and its Personal Environmental Factors in Adolescents |
| title_sort | survey of transition in different stages of cigarette smoking and its personal environmental factors in adolescents |
| topic | Adolescents، Smoking uptake، Environmental factor، Tabriz |
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