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Sociodemographic Factors, Attitudes, and Tobacco use among Adolescent Areca-Nut Users in Mumbai, India

INTRODUCTION: Areca nut, initiated in adolescence, is considered a gateway for tobacco use and an important cause of oral cancers in India. This study examined differences in sociodemographic factors, attitudes and beliefs, and tobacco use between current (last 30 days) areca nut users and past user...

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Autores principales: Gupte, Himanshu A., Mandal, Gauri, Chatterjee, Nilesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082409
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_432_22
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Mandal, Gauri
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description INTRODUCTION: Areca nut, initiated in adolescence, is considered a gateway for tobacco use and an important cause of oral cancers in India. This study examined differences in sociodemographic factors, attitudes and beliefs, and tobacco use between current (last 30 days) areca nut users and past users, who have ever used areca but not in the last 30 days. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey with school students attending grades 7, 8, 9 provided data to compare differences in age, gender, beliefs, attitudes, and concurrent tobacco use among self-reported areca users. Of 1909 participants surveyed, 641 (33.57%) reported use of areca nut; of which 355 (55.38%) current users had consumed it in the last 30 days. RESULTS: A logistic regression model revealed that male gender, using tobacco concurrently, inability to refuse a friend’s request to use, and intention to use areca nuts in the next 12 months were significant predictors of current areca use. CONCLUSION: More research is needed to understand adolescent areca-nut use, including different types of users such as experimenters and those with established habits. This will help design targeted areca-nut prevention and cessation programs.
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spelling pubmed-101127412023-04-19 Sociodemographic Factors, Attitudes, and Tobacco use among Adolescent Areca-Nut Users in Mumbai, India Gupte, Himanshu A. Mandal, Gauri Chatterjee, Nilesh Indian J Community Med Short Communication INTRODUCTION: Areca nut, initiated in adolescence, is considered a gateway for tobacco use and an important cause of oral cancers in India. This study examined differences in sociodemographic factors, attitudes and beliefs, and tobacco use between current (last 30 days) areca nut users and past users, who have ever used areca but not in the last 30 days. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey with school students attending grades 7, 8, 9 provided data to compare differences in age, gender, beliefs, attitudes, and concurrent tobacco use among self-reported areca users. Of 1909 participants surveyed, 641 (33.57%) reported use of areca nut; of which 355 (55.38%) current users had consumed it in the last 30 days. RESULTS: A logistic regression model revealed that male gender, using tobacco concurrently, inability to refuse a friend’s request to use, and intention to use areca nuts in the next 12 months were significant predictors of current areca use. CONCLUSION: More research is needed to understand adolescent areca-nut use, including different types of users such as experimenters and those with established habits. This will help design targeted areca-nut prevention and cessation programs. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2022-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10112741/ /pubmed/37082409 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_432_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Community Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Sociodemographic Factors, Attitudes, and Tobacco use among Adolescent Areca-Nut Users in Mumbai, India
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title_short Sociodemographic Factors, Attitudes, and Tobacco use among Adolescent Areca-Nut Users in Mumbai, India
title_sort sociodemographic factors, attitudes, and tobacco use among adolescent areca-nut users in mumbai, india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082409
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_432_22
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