Prevalence of Tobacco Use Among Students Aged 13‐15 Years in Health Ministers’ Council/Gulf Cooperation Council Member States, 2001‐2004

AlMulla, Ahmad; Helmy, Sahar Abdou; Al-Lawati, Jawad; Nasser, Sami Al; Rahman, Salah Ali Abdel; Almutawa, Ayesha; Saab, B. Abi; Al-Bedah, Abdullah M.; Al-Rabeah, Abdullah; Bahaj, Ahmed Ali; El-Awa, Fatimah; Warren, Charles W.; Jones, Nathan R.; Asma, Samira

doi:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2008.00311.x

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“…This study has found that the prevalence of smokeless tobacco is in fact higher than cigarette smoking, which is consistent with the results from other studies [9,12,17,18,20,21]. Moreover, the prevalence of smokeless tobacco has been reported to be high specifically among young females in this region; for example, in Lebanon,29.9% of young females used smokeless tobacco.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…During the last decades, there have been several attempts to understand and measure the rise in tobacco use among the youth in this part of the world using different methodologies [12,13,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]; however, no papers describing and linking changes in tobacco use over time in this region have been published as far as the researchers of this study are aware of.…”

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Results of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey and implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries

Usmanova¹,

Mokdad²

2013

JEGH

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Results of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey and implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries

Usmanova¹,

Mokdad²

2013

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“…Prevalence of ever cigarette smoking among high school students ranged from 14.4% in Oman to 23.9% in Bahrain (Al-Mulla et al, 2008), (21.7%) in secondary school students of Saudi Arabia (Amin et al, 2011) and 29.6% in High-School students from Greece (Lazaros et al, 2009). A study of 635 students in rural secondary schools in the Nile Delta region found that 11.5% of male students reported current smoking (Harbour, 2011).…”

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Prevalence of Dokha Use among Secondary School Students in Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Shemmari

Shaikh²,

Sreedharan³

2015

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: Dokha is a novel form of smoking in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on which there is very little published literature, especially among adolescents, and this form of smoking has been not been addressed adequately in the smoking cessation strategies in the UAE. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of dokha smoking among male secondary school students in Ajman UAE. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted among male secondary school students in Ajman, UAE. A total of 560 participants filled in selfadministered questionnaires. Results: The prevalence of ever smokers was 39%; ever dokha smokers was 36% and current dokha smokers was 24%. The prevalence is very high when compared to other forms of smoking in the region and globally. Prevalence increased with increasing age and grade of students, prevalence of ever smokers, ever dokha smokers and current dokha smokers was lower in students in the science stream. 40% of the smokers used dokha, cigarettes and shisha, 30% used dokha and cigarettes, and 21% used dokha alone. 30% of the students smoked dokha on all days of the month. Conclusions: The prevalence of ever smokers, ever dokha smokers and current dokha smokers is very high. There is an urgent need for specific health promotion programs tailored to this age group on prevention of dokha smoking and policies restricting the availability of dokha to this age group.

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“…The results also showed that although 63.9% of the smokers expressed the desire to quit smoking about 27.6% were unable to quit in a period of one year (WHO, CDC, 2010). Results published for GYTS for students of the same age group and same period in other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members countries, were similar, however, shisha was more used than cigarette (Al-Mulla et al, 2008). A more recent survey of GYTS conducted in neighboring Iraq in 2012 for same age group yielded slightly lower results.…”

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The Prevalence of Tobacco Products Use among Kuwait Nursing College Students

Omu¹,

Al-Marzouk²,

Al-Kandari³

et al. 2015

IJN

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Background: Nurses continue to reiterate that their professionals and students who smoke are potential barriers to smoking cessation interventions. Over four decades of numerous evidence based studies, and the debate still continues as to the best prevention and smoking cessation interventions for nursing professionals and students. Objectives: To determine the prevalence of tobacco use among students in College of Nursing, Kuwait and evaluate the best tobacco cessation intervention. Method: This was a cross sectional survey of 253 (82 males and 171 females) students using 50-item self-administered questionnaire in Arabic. Also, 25 faculty members were interviewed. Results: The prevalence of cigarette and shisha smoking were 18.2%, and 24.9% among male and female students respectively. Seventy seven percent male and 76% female smokers claimed they were initiated into tobacco use from an early age. College of Nursing curriculum adequately covers hazards of tobacco products and quitting interventions and was confirmed by 93% female and 80.8% male participants. Conclusion: Study hypothesis was confirmed. Despite adequate information and training, students still smoke tobacco, because of early age initiation by family and friends as a way of socializing. Recommendations: Dangers of cigarette and shisha smoking should be introduced in primary schools. Nursing institutions should have smoking cessation clinics on campus and offer student nurses who are active smokers, help to cease smoking. Directions for future research should include cultural aspect of shisha smoking and genetic links of nicotine addiction.

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Prevalence of Tobacco Use Among Students Aged 13‐15 Years in Health Ministers’ Council/Gulf Cooperation Council Member States, 2001‐2004

Cited by 73 publications

References 3 publications

Results of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey and implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries

Results of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey and implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries

Prevalence of Dokha Use among Secondary School Students in Ajman, United Arab Emirates

The Prevalence of Tobacco Products Use among Kuwait Nursing College Students

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