Smoking status of medical students at Ege University: A cross-sectional survey of 1040 students in 2018
| Autor: | Tuğrul Balatacı, Emine Bilge Karakaş, Aysun Zümbül, Görkem Yararbaş, Raika Durusoy, Ozen K. Basoglu, Cemil Gürgün |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ege Üniversitesi |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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lcsh:RC705-779
medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Cross-sectional study business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Medicine (miscellaneous) medical students lcsh:Diseases of the respiratory system lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens lcsh:RC254-282 smoking Family medicine Medicine Smoking status business |
| Zdroj: | Tobacco Induced Diseases, Vol 16, Iss 3 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1617-9625 |
| Popis: | Introduction We aimed to determine the smoking prevalence and related factors among 1,2,3 and 6th grade students at Ege University Faculty of Medicine. Methods This cross-sectional survey was a part of a multi-centre study throughout Turkey and the data were collected in May-June 2018. The target group of this study was 1537 medical students studying in the first, second, third and sixth grades. Questionnaires were applied to 1040 students (67.7%) who agreed to participate in the study. The coverage was 94.5%, 78.6%, 57.4%, 36.7% for the first, second, third and sixth grades, respectively. Results The overall prevalence of smoking was 18.4%, with 18.1%, 18.6%, 17.0% and 22.1% in the first, second, third and sixth grades, respectively. The mean age at starting to smoke was 16.5±2.3 yrs (min.8, max.23). Current smoking was more prevalent in males compared to females (24.3% vs. 11.7%, p |
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