Socio Demographic Factors Related to Smoking among Rural Adolescent.
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2014-07
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Background: Smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of premature death,
disease, and disability. Adolescence is the period of physical, psychological and social
maturation from childhood to adulthood and adolescent smoking is a continuous process
which is related to many disease factors. Objective: To find out the factors related to
smoking among rural adolescents. Materials and method: One hundred and fifty one male
adolescent aged 13 to 19 years from rural areas were interviewed with a semi-structured
questionnaire during January to June 2013, at Dhamrai Upazilla Health Complex, Savar,
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The socio demographic details, smoking and depression history were
recorded. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale was used to
measure the presence of depression. Smoking behavior was measured by a number of
questions. Results: Mean(±SD) age of the study subjects was 16.8(±1.9) years. Most of the
respondents started smoking around the average age of 14.3 years. The study shows that
64% respondents were smokers. Among smokers 80% were influenced by their friends
about smoking. Seventy eight percent of the smokers were suffering from depression while
22% of nonsmokers were depressed (p<0.001). Majority (72%) of the issues of the smoker
parents were smoker (p<0.5). Domestic violence (p<0.001) and stressful events in life
(p<0.05) also played significant roles for smoking. Conclusion: Depression, parent
smoking and peer smoking, domestic violence, and stressful life events are important
factors to start smoking in rural adolescents.
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Smoking, adolescent, rural
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Khan Farzana Islamc, Afrin Sharmina, Huq Md Ehsanul, Zaman U K Sharmin, Rahman M d Rezwanur. Socio Demographic Factors Related to Smoking among Rural Adolescent. Delta Medical College Journal. 2014 July; 2(2): 58-63.