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Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
INTRODUCTION: Smoking tobacco is most common nowadays among dental students due to stress induced by practical workloads and exams. There is limited data regarding tobacco smoking among dental students. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco smoking among online respondent...
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Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37203962 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7503 |
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author | Thakur, Deepak Kaur, Navpreet Chahar, Monika Barman, Nitul Gupta, Roopali Sharma, Vivek |
author_facet | Thakur, Deepak Kaur, Navpreet Chahar, Monika Barman, Nitul Gupta, Roopali Sharma, Vivek |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Smoking tobacco is most common nowadays among dental students due to stress induced by practical workloads and exams. There is limited data regarding tobacco smoking among dental students. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco smoking among online respondent dental students of a dental college. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on dental students from 15 July 2021 to 15 August 2021. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee of K.D. Dental College and Hospital (Reference number: KDDC/Admin/2021/9990A). Data was collected through a structured questionnaire and responses were gathered using an online Google form survey with informed consent. A convenience sampling method was used. Point estimate and 95% confidence interval were calculated. RESULTS: Among 60 online respondents, the prevalence of tobacco smoking was found to be 11 (18.33%) (17.04-24.56, 95% Confidence Interval). The percentage of participants who wanted to stop smoking now was 11 (18.33)%. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of tobacco smoking among the online dental respondents of a dental college was similar to the other studies done in similar settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-102315392023-06-01 Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study Thakur, Deepak Kaur, Navpreet Chahar, Monika Barman, Nitul Gupta, Roopali Sharma, Vivek JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Original Article INTRODUCTION: Smoking tobacco is most common nowadays among dental students due to stress induced by practical workloads and exams. There is limited data regarding tobacco smoking among dental students. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco smoking among online respondent dental students of a dental college. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on dental students from 15 July 2021 to 15 August 2021. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee of K.D. Dental College and Hospital (Reference number: KDDC/Admin/2021/9990A). Data was collected through a structured questionnaire and responses were gathered using an online Google form survey with informed consent. A convenience sampling method was used. Point estimate and 95% confidence interval were calculated. RESULTS: Among 60 online respondents, the prevalence of tobacco smoking was found to be 11 (18.33%) (17.04-24.56, 95% Confidence Interval). The percentage of participants who wanted to stop smoking now was 11 (18.33)%. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of tobacco smoking among the online dental respondents of a dental college was similar to the other studies done in similar settings. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2023-03 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10231539/ /pubmed/37203962 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7503 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Thakur, Deepak Kaur, Navpreet Chahar, Monika Barman, Nitul Gupta, Roopali Sharma, Vivek Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title | Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title_full | Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title_fullStr | Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title_short | Tobacco Smoking among the Online Respondent Dental Students of a Dental College: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study |
title_sort | tobacco smoking among the online respondent dental students of a dental college: a descriptive cross-sectional study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10231539/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37203962 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.7503 |
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