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Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India

BACKGROUND: The relationship between becoming a smoker and having smoker parents, siblings, and relatives is still uncovered in India. The influences of a smoking role model in a family on smoking habits of individuals are yet to be revealed. This study aimed to understand the relationship of smokin...

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Autores principales: Gharat, Vaibhav, Nayak, Sunil, Bansal, Rajkumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494146
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Nayak, Sunil
Bansal, Rajkumar
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description BACKGROUND: The relationship between becoming a smoker and having smoker parents, siblings, and relatives is still uncovered in India. The influences of a smoking role model in a family on smoking habits of individuals are yet to be revealed. This study aimed to understand the relationship of smoking abuse of a person with smoking of their family members. METHODS: This community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the slums of 20 urban health centers (UHCs) of Surat city (India). A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using Epi-Info software. FINDINGS: Among 281 smoker participants, 168 (59.8%), 55 (19.6%), 95 (33.8%), and 50 (17.8%) had smoking fathers, grandparents, siblings, and other relatives, respectively. While 131 participants (44.6%) had correct information about the law of banned smoking, 249 participants (88.6%) were in favor of this law. The association of smoking abuse in fathers with smoking abuse in siblings came out to be odds ratio (OR) = 3.75 (95% CI: 2.11-6.63) and grandparents to be odds ratio 16.43 (95% CI: 4.98-54.17), respectively. The association between education and following the law of banned smoking was statistically significant OR = 2.98 (95% CI: 1.43-6.00). CONCLUSION: Substance abuse in parents, siblings, and other relatives is likely to influence the behavior of the person towards it. Persons living in the same vicinity may also greatly influence the behavior of an individual.
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spelling pubmed-39055392014-02-03 Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India Gharat, Vaibhav Nayak, Sunil Bansal, Rajkumar Addict Health Original Article BACKGROUND: The relationship between becoming a smoker and having smoker parents, siblings, and relatives is still uncovered in India. The influences of a smoking role model in a family on smoking habits of individuals are yet to be revealed. This study aimed to understand the relationship of smoking abuse of a person with smoking of their family members. METHODS: This community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the slums of 20 urban health centers (UHCs) of Surat city (India). A pretested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The data was analyzed using Epi-Info software. FINDINGS: Among 281 smoker participants, 168 (59.8%), 55 (19.6%), 95 (33.8%), and 50 (17.8%) had smoking fathers, grandparents, siblings, and other relatives, respectively. While 131 participants (44.6%) had correct information about the law of banned smoking, 249 participants (88.6%) were in favor of this law. The association of smoking abuse in fathers with smoking abuse in siblings came out to be odds ratio (OR) = 3.75 (95% CI: 2.11-6.63) and grandparents to be odds ratio 16.43 (95% CI: 4.98-54.17), respectively. The association between education and following the law of banned smoking was statistically significant OR = 2.98 (95% CI: 1.43-6.00). CONCLUSION: Substance abuse in parents, siblings, and other relatives is likely to influence the behavior of the person towards it. Persons living in the same vicinity may also greatly influence the behavior of an individual. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3905539/ /pubmed/24494146 Text en © 2013 Kerman University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India
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title_fullStr Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India
title_full_unstemmed Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India
title_short Smoking Pattern in Family Members of Smokers in Slums of Surat City, Western India
title_sort smoking pattern in family members of smokers in slums of surat city, western india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24494146
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