A cross sectional study on tobacco and alcohol abuse among medical college students

Singh, Avi; Gupta, Pratibha; Srivastava, Mrinal Ranjan; Zaidi, Zeashan Haider

doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20173847

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“…In present study the prevalence of substance use was found significantly high among males (61.62%) which was similar to the study done by Singh et al (61.29%) but much higher than that of Padhy et al where prevalence was 37.22%. 3,14 The prevalence among females (29.41%) was similar to the study of Kumari, Nath (28.8%) but significantly higher than Singh et al, (8.24%) and also Padhy et al at 7.22%. 15 This study found that major reason for substance abuse was peer pressure (93.2%) followed by special occasion (84.74%), stress (38.98%) and curiosity (16.94%) this was considerably different than the study by Singh, which found stress (43%), followed by the curiosity of alcohol and tobacco (41.5%) as the major reasons behind taking up substance abuse.…”

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Study of tobacco and alcohol consumption among students of a medical college in a city of Maharashtra

Gaikwad¹,

Priya²,

Dhande³

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Over the years, substance use has increased drastically in every section of the society. Tobacco and alcohol consumption in medical fraternity is quite common. The objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of tobacco and alcohol consumption in medical students and to find out various reasons to start these habits.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted in Government Medical College, Aurangabad during September to November 2018. Study was conducted amongst undergraduate MBBS students. Taking prevalence as 47%, allowable error 10% and 10% non-respondents the sample size comes as 85. By lottery method, third year medical students were selected randomly for the study. Completed data from 120 students were included in the study. Pre-designed semi-structured self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Trial version of SPSS software was used for statistical analysis.Results: In the present study, overall prevalence of substance use among undergraduate MBBS students was found to be 52.5% out of which 61.6% were males and 29.4% were females. Peer pressure was the main reason of continuing the habit (93.2%). 66% of these substance users showed willingness to quit the habit.Conclusions: High prevalence of tobacco and alcohol consumption was observed among undergraduate medical students.

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“…2 Deaths due to tobacco is said to rise from 1.4% in 1990 to 13.3% by 2020. 3 Substance abuse had been proven to cause various Non-communicable disease (WHO, 2018). 5.4% of the global burden of disease is contributed by Alcohol and illicit drug use.…”

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Study of tobacco and alcohol consumption among students of a medical college in a city of Maharashtra

Gaikwad¹,

Priya²,

Dhande³

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…• Though people recognize the deleterious effects of tobacco on health, very few individuals try or completely quit consuming tobacco. [35][36][37][38][39][40]43…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practices pertaining to healthy lifestyle in prevention and control of chronic diseases: a rapid review

Naaz

2021

Int J Community Med Public Health

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With the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), healthy lifestyle has become critical to not only reduce the burden of NCDs, but also to prevent complications and severity of these diseases. Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) pertaining to healthy lifestyle play an important role in determining the occurrence and progress of NCDs. KAP elements are interrelated and dependent on each other. While awareness campaigns provide necessary information to people on healthy lifestyle, how well this information is utilised is a grey area. The objective of this rapid review is to understand the relationship between KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle among individuals who are at risk of developing NCDs and those who are living with NCDs. For this purpose, a rapid review of articles available on Google scholar and Pubmed was conducted. Articles focusing on KAP elements pertaining to healthy lifestyle from the year 2015-2021 were reviewed. Findings from the reviewed studies suggested that people have knowledge about the harmful effects of unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol. People have a positive attitude towards healthy lifestyle, however, being knowledgeable and having a positive attitude did not translate into practicing healthy lifestyle due to multiple barriers to translate existing knowledge into practice. Since practice scores are poor among people, existing behaviour change strategies must be re-examined. An epistemological analysis of existing human behaviour with identified barriers and facilitators to adopt healthy lifestyle can help in formulating sustainable and effective social and behaviour change interventions.

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“…The prevalence of tobacco use in adolescents reported in this study was relatively lower than those reported from other Indian States. 10 Mahanta Beauty et al…”

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“…This study has shown that alcohol and tobacco are major substances being abused by young medical graduates, in spite of universal knowledge that they are source of major non communicable diseases. 10 Although these studies discuss about the adolescent's knowledge and practice of on tobacco and alcohol consumption, however, it is pertinent to understand the knowledge and practice of tobacco and alcohol among adolescent living in slums. As the country is progressing in economic front, more and more slum dwellers especially adolescents are getting into tobacco and alcohol abuse.…”

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Assessment of knowledge and practice towards tobacco and alcohol consumption among male adolescents in urban slums of Delhi

Swain¹,

Singh²

2020

JPMHH

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Background: Tobacco and alcohol consumption has become a serious public health problem. Evidences show that both alcohol and tobacco consumption can cause substantial health related morbidity and mortality among adolescents. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), a cross-sectional survey conducted among school students, aged 13-15 years, highlighted that the overall prevalence of current tobacco users in India was (14.6%) in the year 2009. 1 The consumption of tobacco and alcohol among adolescents in India is increasing dramatically. Hence, a study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge and practice about alcohol and tobacco consumption among male adolescents. The objective of the study was to assess the level of knowledge and practice regarding tobacco and alcohol consumption among the male adolescents living in urban slum of Delhi. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out among 100 male adolescents from urban slums of Delhi. Data was collected using semi-structured, self-administered interview schedule. The collected data was entered using Microsoft Excel 2007 and was analyzed using IBM SPSS statistics 20. Chi-square test was applied and level of significance was kept at P value of <0.05. The study period was from 11 th June to 31 st July.Results: The knowledge level among adolescents regarding tobacco and alcohol and its harmful effects found satisfactory. Almost all the participants had knowledge regarding different forms of tobacco and diseases caused by tobacco intake in various forms and alcohol consumption. In spite of having sound knowledge of harmful effect of tobacco and alcohol, high percentage was using them. Only (14.0%) of study participants never consumed any kind of tobacco and alcohol. Conclusions: In our study we revealed that mere knowledge regarding tobacco intake and alcohol consumption is not important. Participants of the study having adequate knowledge didn't practice the same. The implementation of strict rules regarding prevention from tobacco and alcohol is needed.

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A cross sectional study on tobacco and alcohol abuse among medical college students

Cited by 6 publications

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Study of tobacco and alcohol consumption among students of a medical college in a city of Maharashtra

Study of tobacco and alcohol consumption among students of a medical college in a city of Maharashtra

Knowledge, attitude and practices pertaining to healthy lifestyle in prevention and control of chronic diseases: a rapid review

Assessment of knowledge and practice towards tobacco and alcohol consumption among male adolescents in urban slums of Delhi

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