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Water Pipe as Growing Public Health Challenge Among School Children in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

INTRODUCTION: The water pipe is a form of tobacco smoking that recently become very popular among youth in many countries all over the globe. AIM: To highlight recent data collected through Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) 2019, related to knowled...

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Autores principales: Ramic-Catak, Aida, Kurtovic, Aida, Gavran, Larisa, Hasanica, Nino, Mujezinovic, Adnan, Oruc, Mirza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424450
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.207-211
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author Ramic-Catak, Aida
Kurtovic, Aida
Gavran, Larisa
Hasanica, Nino
Mujezinovic, Adnan
Oruc, Mirza
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Kurtovic, Aida
Gavran, Larisa
Hasanica, Nino
Mujezinovic, Adnan
Oruc, Mirza
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description INTRODUCTION: The water pipe is a form of tobacco smoking that recently become very popular among youth in many countries all over the globe. AIM: To highlight recent data collected through Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) 2019, related to knowledge, attitudes and behavior of school children and youth to water pipe consumption. METHODS: The GYTS questionnaire for the Federation of BiH 2019 contained 60 multiple-choice questions. The GYTS 2019 in the Federation of BiH was conducted in a total of 73 of the 75 sampled primary and secondary schools with a school response rate of 97.3%. From the 6,972 sampled students a total of 6,415 participated as eligible students in grades 8-9 of primary and 1(st) grade of secondary school, with a response rate for students of 92.0%. RESULTS: Survey findings show that almost half (44.1%) of the school children confirm ever smoking the water pipe, while Current smoking of water pipe is confirmed by 16.1% school children. CONCLUSION: There is a substantial need for implementing of systematic and inter sectorial tobacco control measures that involves a water pipe as new public health challenge among youth.
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spelling pubmed-77808182021-01-07 Water Pipe as Growing Public Health Challenge Among School Children in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Ramic-Catak, Aida Kurtovic, Aida Gavran, Larisa Hasanica, Nino Mujezinovic, Adnan Oruc, Mirza Mater Sociomed Original Paper INTRODUCTION: The water pipe is a form of tobacco smoking that recently become very popular among youth in many countries all over the globe. AIM: To highlight recent data collected through Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) 2019, related to knowledge, attitudes and behavior of school children and youth to water pipe consumption. METHODS: The GYTS questionnaire for the Federation of BiH 2019 contained 60 multiple-choice questions. The GYTS 2019 in the Federation of BiH was conducted in a total of 73 of the 75 sampled primary and secondary schools with a school response rate of 97.3%. From the 6,972 sampled students a total of 6,415 participated as eligible students in grades 8-9 of primary and 1(st) grade of secondary school, with a response rate for students of 92.0%. RESULTS: Survey findings show that almost half (44.1%) of the school children confirm ever smoking the water pipe, while Current smoking of water pipe is confirmed by 16.1% school children. CONCLUSION: There is a substantial need for implementing of systematic and inter sectorial tobacco control measures that involves a water pipe as new public health challenge among youth. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7780818/ /pubmed/33424450 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.207-211 Text en © 2020 Aida Ramic-Catak, Aida Kurtovic, Larisa Gavran, Nino Hasanica, Adnan Mujezinovic, Mirza Oruc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ramic-Catak, Aida
Kurtovic, Aida
Gavran, Larisa
Hasanica, Nino
Mujezinovic, Adnan
Oruc, Mirza
Water Pipe as Growing Public Health Challenge Among School Children in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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title_fullStr Water Pipe as Growing Public Health Challenge Among School Children in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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title_short Water Pipe as Growing Public Health Challenge Among School Children in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
title_sort water pipe as growing public health challenge among school children in the federation of bosnia and herzegovina
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424450
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2020.32.207-211
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