Factors associated with knowledge, attitudes and practices of hookah smoking cessation among southern Iranian women during the Covid19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

ABSTRACT

Objectives

This research explored factors associated with knowledge, attitude and practice of hookah smoking cessation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Methods

The participants were 650 women over 15. The data were collected by face-to-face interviews and structured questionnaires in multi-stage sampling.

Result

The results showed 63.5%, 56.3%, and 34.8% of the participants had a good knowledge, positive attitude, and a good practice. The age below 20 (AOR=1.134), college education (AOR=13.227), good economic status (AOR=2.153), holding a job (AOR=1.299), initiation age of hookah use>30years (AOR=3.956) were significantly associated with good knowledge. College education (AOR=1.215), and the initiation age of >30years (AOR= 1.350) were significantly associated with positive attitude. Besides, the initiation age of >30years, (AOR=2.513), history of HS< 5 years (AOR=1.884), no history of HS in family (AOR=1.678), the mere use of fruit tobacco, (AOR=2.131), good knowledge (AOR=9.264) and positive attitude (AOR=2.641) were significantly correlated with a good practice                               

Conclusions

Based on the results, besides knowledge and attitude, a set of influential internal and external factors should be considered to eliminate HS habit during the pandemic.

Abbreviations

COVID-19: Coronavirus Disease-2019, HS: hookah smoking, HSC: hookah smoking cessation, TU: tobacco use, SES: socio-economic-status

KEYWORDS:

• Tobacco cessation
• hookah smoking
• hookah smoking cessation
• hookah
• Covid-19

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Hormozgan University of medical science as their financial support. The authors would also like to express their gratitude to the participants for their sincere cooperation in this study

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This research received a grant from Hormozgan University of medical science [990075].