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Smoking among High School Students in Iran: A Meta-Analysis Study

Objective: Cigarette smoking is an important and preventable risk factor, especially for adolescents and high school students. This issue has become one of the challenges for health system. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of smoking among Iranian high school students. Met...

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Autores principales: Nazarianpirdosti, Mohammad, Abdi, Arsalan, Abdi, Alireza, Ramazani, Uosef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Psychiatry & Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221048
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i2.5823
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author Nazarianpirdosti, Mohammad
Abdi, Arsalan
Abdi, Alireza
Ramazani, Uosef
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description Objective: Cigarette smoking is an important and preventable risk factor, especially for adolescents and high school students. This issue has become one of the challenges for health system. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of smoking among Iranian high school students. Method : This systematic review and meta-analysis study was done by searching PubMed, Scopus, Web Science (WOS), Science Direct, SID, and Google Scholar using the following keywords: “student” and “smoking” from 2000 to March 2018. After initial and critical appraisal, data were entered into a checklist and analyzed by a comprehensive meta-analysis software. Results: The prevalence of smoking was 7.9% by combining the results of 49 articles. Males and females had 10.6% and 4.5% smoking prevalence, respectively. The overall prevalence of smoking was higher in northern areas in Iran (22.4%). Males in the northern (22.4%) and females in western regions (5.3%) were more smokers. There was a significant relationship between the prevalence of smoking with the year of publication, sample size, and age (P < 0.001). Conclusion: In this study, Students' tendency to smoke was different in various regions of Iran, and had a high rate (7.9%). This figure indicates the necessity for planning some coherent educational programs for the public.
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spelling pubmed-82335512021-07-02 Smoking among High School Students in Iran: A Meta-Analysis Study Nazarianpirdosti, Mohammad Abdi, Arsalan Abdi, Alireza Ramazani, Uosef Iran J Psychiatry Review Article Objective: Cigarette smoking is an important and preventable risk factor, especially for adolescents and high school students. This issue has become one of the challenges for health system. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of smoking among Iranian high school students. Method : This systematic review and meta-analysis study was done by searching PubMed, Scopus, Web Science (WOS), Science Direct, SID, and Google Scholar using the following keywords: “student” and “smoking” from 2000 to March 2018. After initial and critical appraisal, data were entered into a checklist and analyzed by a comprehensive meta-analysis software. Results: The prevalence of smoking was 7.9% by combining the results of 49 articles. Males and females had 10.6% and 4.5% smoking prevalence, respectively. The overall prevalence of smoking was higher in northern areas in Iran (22.4%). Males in the northern (22.4%) and females in western regions (5.3%) were more smokers. There was a significant relationship between the prevalence of smoking with the year of publication, sample size, and age (P < 0.001). Conclusion: In this study, Students' tendency to smoke was different in various regions of Iran, and had a high rate (7.9%). This figure indicates the necessity for planning some coherent educational programs for the public. Psychiatry & Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2021-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8233551/ /pubmed/34221048 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i2.5823 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Smoking among High School Students in Iran: A Meta-Analysis Study
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title_short Smoking among High School Students in Iran: A Meta-Analysis Study
title_sort smoking among high school students in iran: a meta-analysis study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221048
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i2.5823
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