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Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique

BACKGROUND: Our knowledge on the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among women of Alborz is not reliable due to the sensitivity of the issue. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of seven risk behaviors among the reproductive age women in Alborz Province, Iran. METHOD: In this cross-sectional...

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Autores principales: Bahadivand, Samira, Doosti-Irani, Amin, Karami, Manoochehr, Qorbani, Mostafa, Mohammadi, Younes
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7461357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32867777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01056-9
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author Bahadivand, Samira
Doosti-Irani, Amin
Karami, Manoochehr
Qorbani, Mostafa
Mohammadi, Younes
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Qorbani, Mostafa
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description BACKGROUND: Our knowledge on the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among women of Alborz is not reliable due to the sensitivity of the issue. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of seven risk behaviors among the reproductive age women in Alborz Province, Iran. METHOD: In this cross-sectional study, 2000 women were randomly selected from a registered healthcare system in 2019. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the required data. The prevalence of the risk behaviors including drug abuse, hookah, alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking, extramarital intercourse, and gambling was estimated using the unmatched count technique, and the prevalence rate was reported at a 95% confidence interval. RESULTS: The response rate for this study was 95%. The estimated prevalence for drug abuse, hookah, alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking, extramarital intercourse, and gambling were 3% (95%CI: 2.78 to 3.22), 10.5% (95%CI: 10.29 to 10.71), 7% (95%CI: 6.78 to 7.22), 10% (95%CI: 9.78 to 10.22), 8.7% (95%CI, 8.29 to 8.71), and 7.5% (95%CI, 4.71 to 7.28), respectively. CONCLUSION: High risk behaviors are highly prevalent among Iranian women. Enforcing laws, prohibition, marketing restrictions, increasing taxation, expanding treatment, promoting condom distribution and providing community-based service are recommended to reduce the effects of high risk behaviors among women.
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spelling pubmed-74613572020-09-02 Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique Bahadivand, Samira Doosti-Irani, Amin Karami, Manoochehr Qorbani, Mostafa Mohammadi, Younes BMC Womens Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Our knowledge on the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among women of Alborz is not reliable due to the sensitivity of the issue. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of seven risk behaviors among the reproductive age women in Alborz Province, Iran. METHOD: In this cross-sectional study, 2000 women were randomly selected from a registered healthcare system in 2019. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the required data. The prevalence of the risk behaviors including drug abuse, hookah, alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking, extramarital intercourse, and gambling was estimated using the unmatched count technique, and the prevalence rate was reported at a 95% confidence interval. RESULTS: The response rate for this study was 95%. The estimated prevalence for drug abuse, hookah, alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking, extramarital intercourse, and gambling were 3% (95%CI: 2.78 to 3.22), 10.5% (95%CI: 10.29 to 10.71), 7% (95%CI: 6.78 to 7.22), 10% (95%CI: 9.78 to 10.22), 8.7% (95%CI, 8.29 to 8.71), and 7.5% (95%CI, 4.71 to 7.28), respectively. CONCLUSION: High risk behaviors are highly prevalent among Iranian women. Enforcing laws, prohibition, marketing restrictions, increasing taxation, expanding treatment, promoting condom distribution and providing community-based service are recommended to reduce the effects of high risk behaviors among women. BioMed Central 2020-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7461357/ /pubmed/32867777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01056-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Doosti-Irani, Amin
Karami, Manoochehr
Qorbani, Mostafa
Mohammadi, Younes
Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title_full Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title_fullStr Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title_short Prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in Alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
title_sort prevalence of high-risk behaviors in reproductive age women in alborz province in 2019 using unmatched count technique
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7461357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32867777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01056-9
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