Prevalence of smoking and its related factors among Iranian adolescents

ABSTRACT

Background

Given that adolescence is important in community health, and planning, preventing and treating the smoking-caused health problems need to estimate the precise statistics on the prevalence of smoking and consider the effective factors among adolescents, the present study aimed to determine the frequency of and effective factors on smoking among adolescents.

Methods

The present descriptive-analytical study was conducted during 2019 among 363 secondary high school boy students in Sanandaj, Iran. Sample was selected by cluster sampling method and data were collected by using a valid and reliable questionnaire. Data were entered in SPSS 23 and analyzed by using descriptive statistics and logistic regression.

Results

Based on the results, the prevalence of smoking among the students under study was 19% (n = 69). The results related to logistic regression test indicated age and educational grade, as well as the educational level of father and grade point average (GPA) of previous semester as the factors affecting smoking (P < .05).

Conclusion

Due to the greater smoking prevalence among students with more age, higher educational grade, and less GPA in the previous semester, as well as having mother with lower educational level, paying more attention to the above-mentioned students is suggested in designing the smoking prevention educational programs.

KEYWORDS:

• Smoking
• prevalence
• student
• adolescents
• Iran

Acknowledgments

The authors of this article are aware of the need to thank and appreciate all the students who collaborated with us on the implementation of this project and completed the questionnaires. We also thank the Social Determinants of Health Research Center of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences for their cooperation in approving this project. The cost of conducting this research on February 2, 2016, was provided by the Deputy of Research and Technology of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences with Grant number 94/296.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This project was approved and funded by Social Determinants of Health Research Center of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences (grant number: 94/296)