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Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana

BACKGROUND: Adolescent cigarette smoking is of public health importance since many adult smokers had initiated the habit as adolescents. This study aims to determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo Municipality, Ghana and factors associated with cigarett...

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Autores principales: Owusu-Sarpong, Akosua A, Agbeshie, Kwame
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ghana Medical Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116338
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v53i4.4
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Agbeshie, Kwame
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description BACKGROUND: Adolescent cigarette smoking is of public health importance since many adult smokers had initiated the habit as adolescents. This study aims to determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo Municipality, Ghana and factors associated with cigarette smoking. METHODS: A school-based cross-sectional analytic study was conducted in February 2017 in Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A stratified random sampling method was applied to select 700 students. After obtaining informed consent, structured questionnaires were administered to collect information on demographic characteristics, behaviours, family, peer and school factors. Data was entered into SPSS and analysed with level of significant as p-value of less than 0.05. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis were applied to determine prevalence and risk factors of cigarette smoking. RESULTS: A total of 700 students participated in the study and the prevalence of cigarette smoking was 14.3% (100) and 77.5% (76) were introduced to smoking by their peers. Those who started smoking cigarette at the age of 10 years and below were 32% (32). Factors associated with cigarette smoking were being in JHS 1 (AOR:2.23, p=0.006), close friends smoking cigarette (AOR: 2.26, p=0.001), having drank alcohol before (AOR: 6.0, p<0.001) and having ever used marijuana (AOR: 6.48, p<0.001). However, recognizing marijuana usage to be wrong was protective against cigarette smoking (AOR: 0.58, p=0.006). CONCLUSION: Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents exists in Yilo Krobo Municipality and school-based interventions such as counselling services on substance use should be implemented to address these behaviours. FUNDING: No external funding was received to conduct the study
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spelling pubmed-70364402020-02-28 Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana Owusu-Sarpong, Akosua A Agbeshie, Kwame Ghana Med J Original Article BACKGROUND: Adolescent cigarette smoking is of public health importance since many adult smokers had initiated the habit as adolescents. This study aims to determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo Municipality, Ghana and factors associated with cigarette smoking. METHODS: A school-based cross-sectional analytic study was conducted in February 2017 in Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A stratified random sampling method was applied to select 700 students. After obtaining informed consent, structured questionnaires were administered to collect information on demographic characteristics, behaviours, family, peer and school factors. Data was entered into SPSS and analysed with level of significant as p-value of less than 0.05. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis were applied to determine prevalence and risk factors of cigarette smoking. RESULTS: A total of 700 students participated in the study and the prevalence of cigarette smoking was 14.3% (100) and 77.5% (76) were introduced to smoking by their peers. Those who started smoking cigarette at the age of 10 years and below were 32% (32). Factors associated with cigarette smoking were being in JHS 1 (AOR:2.23, p=0.006), close friends smoking cigarette (AOR: 2.26, p=0.001), having drank alcohol before (AOR: 6.0, p<0.001) and having ever used marijuana (AOR: 6.48, p<0.001). However, recognizing marijuana usage to be wrong was protective against cigarette smoking (AOR: 0.58, p=0.006). CONCLUSION: Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents exists in Yilo Krobo Municipality and school-based interventions such as counselling services on substance use should be implemented to address these behaviours. FUNDING: No external funding was received to conduct the study Ghana Medical Association 2019-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7036440/ /pubmed/32116338 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v53i4.4 Text en Copyright © The Author(s). This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license.
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Owusu-Sarpong, Akosua A
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Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title_full Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title_fullStr Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title_short Cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Yilo Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region of Ghana
title_sort cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in yilo krobo municipality in the eastern region of ghana
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32116338
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v53i4.4
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