Determinants of Smoking Behaviour Among Secondary School Students in Bangladesh

Md. Mizanur, Rahman and Sk. Akhtar, Ahmad and Md. Jahirul, Karim and Ho, Ai Chia (2011) Determinants of Smoking Behaviour Among Secondary School Students in Bangladesh. Journal of Community Health, 36 (5). pp. 831-838. ISSN 0094-5145

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Abstract

Despite established country’s tobacco control law, cigarette smoking by the young people and the magnitude of nicotine dependence among the students is alarming in Bangladesh. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of smoking and factors influencing it among the secondary school students. A two-stage cluster sampling was used for selection of schools with probability proportional to enrollment size followed by stratified random sampling of government and private schools. The 70-item questionnaire included ‘core GYTS’ (Global Youth Tobacco Survey) and other additional questions were used to collect relevant information. Analysis showed that the prevalence of smoking was 12.3% among boys and 4.5% among girls, respectively. The mean age at initiation of smoking was 10.8 years with standard deviation of 2.7 years. Logistic regression analysis revealed that boys are 2.282 times likely to smoked than girls and it was 1.786 times higher among the students aged 16 years and above than their younger counterparts. Smoking by teachers appeared to be the strong predictor for students smoking behaviour (OR 2.206, 95% CI: 1.576, 3.088) followed by peer influence (OR 1.988, 95% CI: 1.178, 3.356). Effective smoking prevention program should to be taken to reduce smoking behaviour. The school curricula had less impact in preventing smoking except teacher’s smoking behaviour.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Bangladesh, Secondary school students, Smoking, Tobacco, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Depositing User: Karen Kornalius
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2017 07:08
Last Modified: 21 Jun 2017 07:08
URI: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16745

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