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Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is an integral part of prison life and an established part of the culture. Little attention has been paid to prevention of smoking in prison. Approximately 70–80% of prisoners have been identified as current smokers. Aim: To assess the effectiveness of smoking cessation i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25558450 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.146213 |
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author | Naik, Sachin Khanagar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amit Ramachandra, Sujith Vadavadagi, Sunil V. Dhananjaya, Kiran Murthy |
author_facet | Naik, Sachin Khanagar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amit Ramachandra, Sujith Vadavadagi, Sunil V. Dhananjaya, Kiran Murthy |
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description | BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is an integral part of prison life and an established part of the culture. Little attention has been paid to prevention of smoking in prison. Approximately 70–80% of prisoners have been identified as current smokers. Aim: To assess the effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners at Central Jail, Bangalore city. AIM: To assess the effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners at Central Jail, Bangalore city. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A randomized controlled trial was planned among male prisoners in Central Jail, Bangalore city. There were 1600 convicted prisoners. A self-administered questionnaire was given to the prisoners to assess their smoking behavior by which prevalence of tobacco smoking was found. Exactly 1352 tobacco users were studied. Among them, there were 1252 smokers. Based on inclusion criteria and informed consent given by the prisoners, a sample of 600 was chosen for the study by systematic random sampling. Among the 600 prisoners, 300 were randomly selected for the study group and 300 for the control group. RESULTS: Prevalence of tobacco smoking among the prisoners was 92.60%. In the present study, after smoking cessation intervention, 17% showed no change in smoking, 21.66% reduced smoking, 16% stopped smoking, and 45.33% relapsed (P < 0.0001) at the end of 6-month follow-up in the study group. CONCLUSION: Tobacco use was high among the prisoners. Tobacco reduction is possible in the prison even if the living conditions are not favorable. Relatively high rate of relapse in our study indicates that some policies should be adopted to improve smokers’ information on consequences of tobacco on health and motivational intervention should be added to prisoners. |
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spelling | pubmed-42781022015-01-02 Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial Naik, Sachin Khanagar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amit Ramachandra, Sujith Vadavadagi, Sunil V. Dhananjaya, Kiran Murthy J Int Soc Prev Community Dent Original Article BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is an integral part of prison life and an established part of the culture. Little attention has been paid to prevention of smoking in prison. Approximately 70–80% of prisoners have been identified as current smokers. Aim: To assess the effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners at Central Jail, Bangalore city. AIM: To assess the effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners at Central Jail, Bangalore city. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A randomized controlled trial was planned among male prisoners in Central Jail, Bangalore city. There were 1600 convicted prisoners. A self-administered questionnaire was given to the prisoners to assess their smoking behavior by which prevalence of tobacco smoking was found. Exactly 1352 tobacco users were studied. Among them, there were 1252 smokers. Based on inclusion criteria and informed consent given by the prisoners, a sample of 600 was chosen for the study by systematic random sampling. Among the 600 prisoners, 300 were randomly selected for the study group and 300 for the control group. RESULTS: Prevalence of tobacco smoking among the prisoners was 92.60%. In the present study, after smoking cessation intervention, 17% showed no change in smoking, 21.66% reduced smoking, 16% stopped smoking, and 45.33% relapsed (P < 0.0001) at the end of 6-month follow-up in the study group. CONCLUSION: Tobacco use was high among the prisoners. Tobacco reduction is possible in the prison even if the living conditions are not favorable. Relatively high rate of relapse in our study indicates that some policies should be adopted to improve smokers’ information on consequences of tobacco on health and motivational intervention should be added to prisoners. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4278102/ /pubmed/25558450 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.146213 Text en Copyright: © Journal of International Society of Preventive and Community Dentistry 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Naik, Sachin Khanagar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amit Ramachandra, Sujith Vadavadagi, Sunil V. Dhananjaya, Kiran Murthy Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title | Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title_full | Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title_short | Assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in India: A randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | assessment of effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention among male prisoners in india: a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278102/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25558450 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.146213 |
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