Prevalence of and Factors Associated with Smoking among Japanese Medical Students
| Autor: | Kenji Hayashi, Tetsuo Tamaki, Yoneatsu Osaki, Eise Yokoyama, Shinji Takemura, Yoshitaka Kaneita, Hideyuki Kanda, Takashi Ohida |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Students Medical Epidemiology Alternative medicine Smoking Prevention Logistic regression smoking behavior Smoking behavior Young Adult Sex Factors Japan Risk Factors Japanese medical students Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence medicine Insomnia Humans Young adult Schools Medical Statistical Data Chi-Square Distribution business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) School Health Smoking General Medicine Test (assessment) Logistic Models Family medicine Female medicine.symptom business Chi-squared distribution |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Epidemiology |
| ISSN: | 1349-9092 0917-5040 |
| Popis: | Background: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with smokingamong Japanese medical students, to help promote effective antismoking measures in this population.Methods: From the 80 university medical schools in Japan, 20 were randomly selected and invited to participate inour survey. The survey focused on medical students and employed an anonymous self-administered questionnaire.Information on each university’s antismoking measures was obtained using a separate questionnaire administered toteaching staff. The survey was conducted from December 2006 through March 2007. Factors associated withsmoking were identified by using the chi-square test and multiple logistic regression analysis.Results: A total of 1619 valid surveys were returned. The overall prevalence of smoking was 13.7% (18.1% amongmen and 5.1% among women). Factors associated with smoking among medical students were male sex, enrollmentat a private medical university, smoking by siblings, alcohol consumption, coffee consumption, insomnia, and lessthan 6 hours of sleep per night.Conclusions: Antismoking education must be further promoted to Japanese medical students, with considerationgiven to the factors associated with smoking behavior found in the present study.Key words: smoking behavior; Japanese medical students; Japan |
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