Smoking patterns among primary health care attendees, Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia

Autor:	N. S. Al-Haddad, Muzamil H. Abdelgadir, Tariq A. Al-Habeeb, al-Ghamdy Ys, Naseem Akhtar Qureshi
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Nicotine withdrawal business.industry Family medicine education medicine Primary health care General Medicine Disease Peer pressure medicine.disease business
Zdroj:	Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 9:911-922
ISSN:	1687-1634 1020-3397
DOI:	10.26719/2003.9.5-6.911
Popis:	Prevalence, sociodemographic patterns and medical co-morbidity of smoking among a cross-section of primary health care [PHC] clients in Saudi Arabia were examined. We used a 44-item semistructured questionnaire to collect data from 1752 patients at 25 randomly selected PHC centres. Percentage of smoking was 52.3%. Although 85% were adult smokers, 8.6% began smoking before age 12. Smokers gave overlapping reasons to smoke including peer pressure; non-smokers gave religious and health logics against smoking. Of all smokers, 92.8% wanted to learn cessation strategies, 11.8% were ignorant of hazards and 32.4% reported manifestations of nicotine withdrawal. Besides alcohol use [13.4%], 81.8% had co-morbid physical disease
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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