Psychosocial predictors of smoking among secondary school students in Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

Amin, Tarek Tawfik; Amr, Mostafa; Zaza, Burhan Omar

doi:10.1007/s10865-011-9319-7

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“…The current study included a total number of (370) smoking adolescents who participate in this study, their mean age was 16.8 with the most group ages of the participant were (17-19) years, and this finding is similar to Karimy et al, 2013 study, it found that the mean age for participants is 16.49 (12) also Reda et al, 2012 did find the same result and his research stated that the mean age is 16.4 years (13) , in addition to that the most of the participants were living in urban areas and that the same finding result of Amin et al, 2011 found that the urban students were more the half of the participants (14) . Moreover, the dominant marital status of the smoking adolescents was the single status Reda et al, 2012 had mentioned that in his study where the most of his participants were single (13) , that result was expected because of the nature of the Iraqi society and the age of the participants in this period of life it is usually to be single.…”

Section: Part I: Socio-demographic Data Of the Smoking Adolescentssupporting

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Psychosocial Determinants of Smoking among Adolescents in Al-Rifa’i City

Jaafar¹

2017

Int.J.Curr.Res.Aca.Rev.

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Article InfoSmoking attends to kill one person every six seconds and causing a variety of diseases like cancer and even psychological problems and caused millions of mortalities. The adolescents are the most ages who start smoking due to many psychosocial factors they start smoking in early age causing more harms and addicted to smoking which worsen the psychological disorders. The study aim is to find the psychosocial determinants that cause smoking initiation and to find the relationship between these determinants and the demographic information. The study is a descriptive cross-sectional study applied on the mediatory and secondary smoking students in Al-Rifa`i City from the 1st November 2016 until 11 th Jun 2017 among (8) schools were chosen randomly and by using scales for depression, anxiety, stress and social determinants, and by using simple random sampling (370) smoking students were chosen whose ages were (13-19) years. (370) smoking students whose ages were (13-19) years, (49.5%) of them had been assessed with mild depression, (47.3%) of them had mild anxiety and (46.8%) had a mild stress, in addition to (9) affected social factors. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between the depression and marital status, anxiety and each of marital status, parent social status, economic status, age of beginning of narghile smoking and the continuity of smoking, stress and smoking type and narghile smoking frequency, and the social determinants and the living status The general conclusion is that the psychological determinants (depression, anxiety, stress) and social determinants were affected in smoking initiation among adolescents and some of them having an advance situation of psychological problems. The study recommended working on establishing and improve programs to prevent smoking in schools in addition to working on teaching families and teachers how to deal with the psychological problems of the adolescents to not lose them in smoking way.

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Section: Part I: Socio-demographic Data Of the Smoking Adolescentssupporting

confidence: 83%

Psychosocial Determinants of Smoking among Adolescents in Al-Rifa’i City

Jaafar¹

2017

Int.J.Curr.Res.Aca.Rev.

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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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“…9 It is also quite possible that the prevalence of smoking amongst Makkah male secondary school students may be even lower than what was reported in other studies conducted in other area in Saudi Arabia and this could be due to pressure from social, cultural, and religious factors. The prevalence of smoking among secondary school students in Al-Hassa was 21.7% as was estimated by Amin et al 10 in Jeddah, the prevalence of smoking among male secondary school students was 37% as was recorded by Fida and Ismail. 11 These results suggest that the influence of friends and family is often a key factor in the decision to begin smoking.…”

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confidence: 60%

“…Amin et al, found that smoking of close relatives and friends were statistically significant determinants of current smoking status among secondary school students in Al-Hassa. 10 The peer pressure from smoker friends was among the most common reasons given for smoking among male secondary school students in Jeddah as it was stated that smoking friends and parents play an important role in the increased risk of smoking in the adolescents. 9,[11][12][13] …”

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confidence: 99%