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Smoking habits among medical students in Medical College – Wassit university | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2910-2916 | ||
| Author | ||
| Aseel H. Shemal | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objective: To estimate the prevalence of smoking habits among male medical students at the College of Medicine,Wassit University. Methods:This study was a cross-sectional study done by using Arabic questionnaires distributed to the medical students in the College of Medicine, Wassit University at different educational levels from October 14, 2010 to February 25, 2011. A total of 150 medical student were included in this study. Results: The study shows that 23.3 % of male medical students were currently active smokers.Most of them (51.4%),are smokers since 1-2 years.(68.6%) smoke less than 20 cigarettes per day.(57.1%) smoke both cigarettes and sheesha.Most of them(82.9%) are affected by their friends in initiation of smoking behavior.There is significant relationship between smoking and:1-peer pressure,2-respiratory tract infection and 3-academic performance. Conclusion: There is an urgent need to promote multidisciplinary health education activities at different age groups in order to prevent young age students from smoking, and to help smokers to quit especially in medical students. | ||
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