Prevalence of tobacco consumption: Iranian health perception survey
Objective (s): To determine prevalence of tobacco consumption among Iranians. Methods: This was a nationwide cross sectional study. A random sample of individuals aged between 18 and 65 years were entered into the study. Prevalence of tobacco consumption was measured asking each respondent to indica...
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doaj-0a458e1d917540a59fd94f8fa67317242020-11-25T04:07:47ZfasIranian Institute for Health Sciences ResearchPayesh1680-76262008-45362011-07-01103365372Prevalence of tobacco consumption: Iranian health perception surveyMahdi Ebadi0Maryam Vahdaninia1Ali Azin2Afsoon Aeenparast3Sepideh Omidvari4Katayoun Jahangiri5Jila Sadighi6Faranak Farzadi7Farzaneh Maftoon8Ali Montazeri9 Objective (s): To determine prevalence of tobacco consumption among Iranians. Methods: This was a nationwide cross sectional study. A random sample of individuals aged between 18 and 65 years were entered into the study. Prevalence of tobacco consumption was measured asking each respondent to indicate whether they consume tobacco products (cigarette, hookak and pipe) or not, and if yes how much? Results: In all 27,883 individuals looks part in the study. The mean age of the respondents was 32.7 years (SD=11.8). 74.6% of the respondents indicated that they were not smokers and among the smokers, 10.4% smoke 1-5 cigarettes daily, 8.5% smoke 6-10, 4.6% smoke 11-20 and 1.5% smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day. Logistic regression analysis showed that age, education, gender, occupation and marital status had significant relationship with smoking. Conclusion: The findings suggest that one out of four individuals consume tobacco to some extent. The need for interventions to reduce smoking among Iranian adult population seems necessary.http://payeshjournal.ir/article-1-514-en.htmlprevalencetobacco consumptionhealthiran |
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Mahdi Ebadi Maryam Vahdaninia Ali Azin Afsoon Aeenparast Sepideh Omidvari Katayoun Jahangiri Jila Sadighi Faranak Farzadi Farzaneh Maftoon Ali Montazeri Prevalence of tobacco consumption: Iranian health perception survey Payesh prevalence tobacco consumption health iran |
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Mahdi Ebadi Maryam Vahdaninia Ali Azin Afsoon Aeenparast Sepideh Omidvari Katayoun Jahangiri Jila Sadighi Faranak Farzadi Farzaneh Maftoon Ali Montazeri |
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Prevalence of tobacco consumption: Iranian health perception survey |
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Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research |
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1680-7626 2008-4536 |
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Objective (s): To determine prevalence of tobacco consumption among Iranians.
Methods: This was a nationwide cross sectional study. A random sample of individuals aged between 18 and 65 years were entered into the study. Prevalence of tobacco consumption was measured asking each respondent to indicate whether they consume tobacco products (cigarette, hookak and pipe) or not, and if yes how much?
Results: In all 27,883 individuals looks part in the study. The mean age of the respondents was 32.7 years (SD=11.8). 74.6% of the respondents indicated that they were not smokers and among the smokers, 10.4% smoke 1-5 cigarettes daily, 8.5% smoke 6-10, 4.6% smoke 11-20 and 1.5% smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day. Logistic regression analysis showed that age, education, gender, occupation and marital status had significant relationship with smoking.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that one out of four individuals consume tobacco to some extent. The need for interventions to reduce smoking among Iranian adult population seems necessary. |
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