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Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare the tobacco use prevalence; to understand and compare attitudes and knowledge related to tobacco use and its health impact among urban and rural students; and to assess urban and rural disparity in the use of tobacco among 12 and 15-year-old adolescents in...

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Autores principales: Sabnis, Rajesh, Sahu, Kamtaram, Thakur, Deepak, Surana, Sanidhya, Mazhar, Heena, Pandey, Soumy
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28217541
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.197200
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author Sabnis, Rajesh
Sahu, Kamtaram
Thakur, Deepak
Surana, Sanidhya
Mazhar, Heena
Pandey, Soumy
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Sahu, Kamtaram
Thakur, Deepak
Surana, Sanidhya
Mazhar, Heena
Pandey, Soumy
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description AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare the tobacco use prevalence; to understand and compare attitudes and knowledge related to tobacco use and its health impact among urban and rural students; and to assess urban and rural disparity in the use of tobacco among 12 and 15-year-old adolescents in the urban and rural schools in Chhattisgarh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 12 and 15-year-old and urban and rural school going children in Durg District. Scientifically, based on the data obtained from the pilot study, sample size was calculated. A total of 1000 children were selected to be a part of the study and were interviewed face-to-face using a detailed pretested, close-ended questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16.0 (SPSS Pvt. Ltd, Chicago, IL, USA) was used for the statistical analyses. RESULTS: Prevalence of tobacco consumption was 48.8%. Males were involved predominantly in consuming tobacco. The knowledge and attitude was better in the school children of urban areas than the school children of rural areas; more of the urban school children were involved in smoking cigarette. Rural children outnumbered urban children in the smokeless tobacco consumption. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of tobacco consumption among school children remains high with a wide disparity among urban and rural children. There is an urgent need to have a rural orientation in the National Tobacco Control Program that is currently being developed by the Government of India and giving relevance to the youth.
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spelling pubmed-52855992017-02-17 Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students Sabnis, Rajesh Sahu, Kamtaram Thakur, Deepak Surana, Sanidhya Mazhar, Heena Pandey, Soumy J Int Soc Prev Community Dent Original Article AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare the tobacco use prevalence; to understand and compare attitudes and knowledge related to tobacco use and its health impact among urban and rural students; and to assess urban and rural disparity in the use of tobacco among 12 and 15-year-old adolescents in the urban and rural schools in Chhattisgarh, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 12 and 15-year-old and urban and rural school going children in Durg District. Scientifically, based on the data obtained from the pilot study, sample size was calculated. A total of 1000 children were selected to be a part of the study and were interviewed face-to-face using a detailed pretested, close-ended questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16.0 (SPSS Pvt. Ltd, Chicago, IL, USA) was used for the statistical analyses. RESULTS: Prevalence of tobacco consumption was 48.8%. Males were involved predominantly in consuming tobacco. The knowledge and attitude was better in the school children of urban areas than the school children of rural areas; more of the urban school children were involved in smoking cigarette. Rural children outnumbered urban children in the smokeless tobacco consumption. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of tobacco consumption among school children remains high with a wide disparity among urban and rural children. There is an urgent need to have a rural orientation in the National Tobacco Control Program that is currently being developed by the Government of India and giving relevance to the youth. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5285599/ /pubmed/28217541 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.197200 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sabnis, Rajesh
Sahu, Kamtaram
Thakur, Deepak
Surana, Sanidhya
Mazhar, Heena
Pandey, Soumy
Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title_full Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title_fullStr Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title_full_unstemmed Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title_short Urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: An epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
title_sort urban and rural disparity in tobacco use and knowledge about oral cancer among adolescents: an epidemiological survey on 12 and 15-year school going students
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5285599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28217541
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2231-0762.197200
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