PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDY OF CIGARETTE SMOKING

The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more...

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Autores principales: Tandon, A.K., Chaturvedi, P.K., Dubey, A.L., Narang, R.K., Singh, S.K., Chandra, S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927445
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author Tandon, A.K.
Chaturvedi, P.K.
Dubey, A.L.
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Singh, S.K.
Chandra, S.
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description The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more common among student who were married hailed from rural areas and the intensity of smoking increased with advancement in the career in medical profession. A strong association was observed between the habit and family history of smoking. The psychological factors associated with smoking were worry about examination unhappiness without justified cause and failure in friendship.
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spelling pubmed-29900842011-09-16 PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDY OF CIGARETTE SMOKING Tandon, A.K. Chaturvedi, P.K. Dubey, A.L. Narang, R.K. Singh, S.K. Chandra, S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more common among student who were married hailed from rural areas and the intensity of smoking increased with advancement in the career in medical profession. A strong association was observed between the habit and family history of smoking. The psychological factors associated with smoking were worry about examination unhappiness without justified cause and failure in friendship. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2990084/ /pubmed/21927445 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PSYCHO-SOCIAL STUDY OF CIGARETTE SMOKING
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