Smoking patterns among primary health care attendees, Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia / Al Haddad, N.S.;Al Habeeb, T.A.;Abdel Gadir, M.H.;Al Ghamdy, Y.S.;Qureshi, N.A.
Tác giả : Al Haddad, N.S.;Al Habeeb, T.A.;Abdel Gadir, M.H.;Al Ghamdy, Y.S.;Qureshi, N.A.
Năm xuất bản : 2003
Chủ đề : 1. Attitude to Health. 2. Community Health Centers. 3. Comorbidity. 4. Family Practice. 5. Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. 6. Motivation. 7. Peer Group. 8. Primary Health Care. 9. Questionnaires. 10. Risk Factors. 11. Smoking.
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Tóm tắt : | 911-922 Prevalence, sociodemographic patterns and medical co-morbidity of smoking among a cross-section of primary health care [PHC] clients in Saudi Arabia were examined. We used a 44-item semistructured questionnaire to collect data from 1752 patients at 25 randomly selected PHC centres. Percentage of smoking was 52.3%. Although 85% were adult smokers, 8.6% began smoking before age 12. Smokers gave overlapping reasons to smoke including peer pressure; non-smokers gave religious and health logics against smoking. Of all smokers, 92.8% wanted to learn cessation strategies, 11.8% were ignorant of hazards and 32.4% reported manifestations of nicotine withdrawal. Besides alcohol use [13.4%], 81.8% had co-morbid physical disease |
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