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Percentage of Smoking and Attitude towards Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Medical and Non-Medical Male Students of Zagazig University

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Abstract

Background: Worldwide, smoking is a serious threat to public health. Since university students make up a significant portion of the community, research on their smoking habits, knowledge and attitude would be interesting. The unique nature of being a medical student, who is expected to know enough, can alter the smoking percentage and attitude. So, our objectives were to compare the percentage of smoking among medical to that among non-medical students and to assess the difference in their knowledge and attitude towards smoking and smoking cessation methods.
Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted at four faculties: two faculties of the medical sector and two of the nonmedical. There were 182 students in each group. A semi-structured questionnaire was designed and participants were asked about their current smoking state, knowledge about smoking and smoking cessation, attitude towards smoking andintention to quit smoking.
Results: There was a statistically significant difference between medical and non-medical students regarding the percentage of smoking, with 24.7 percent of non-medical students being smokers versus only 9.9% of medical students. When compared to non-medical students, medical students had significantly higher knowledge about possibility of smoking cessation and nicotine replacement therapy. However, the intention to stop smoking was higher among non-medical smokers (86.8%) than among medical smokers (70.5%).
Conclusion: A higher percentage of smoking was reported among the non-medical students. This can be attributed to poorer knowledge about the available interventions to help quit smoking. This emphasizes the importance of sponsoring educational anti-smoking activities for university students.

DOI

10.21608/ejcm.2024.275427.1290

Keywords

Smoking, Medical, non-medical, university students

Authors

First Name

Noha

Last Name

Frere

MiddleName

Osman

Affiliation

Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.

Email

noha.osman2011@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-6078-8790

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Abd El-Sattar

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Family medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

ahmed.nasr102011@gmail.com

City

zagazig

Orcid

0009-0007-1490-5862

First Name

Abdullah

Last Name

Gomaa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

ag595024@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdelfatah

Last Name

Abdelfatah

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

abdo2142000@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdallah

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

abdullahmagdi43@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Srour

Last Name

Elqadi

MiddleName

Younes

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

sorouryounes@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdelmonsef

Last Name

Abdelmonsef

MiddleName

Saeed

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

abdelmonsif59@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sayed

Last Name

Abdelrahman

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

sayedelshobary@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdelazeem

Last Name

Abdelazeem

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

abdelazeemm088@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Salah

Last Name

Shaapan

MiddleName

Z

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

salaheldin2116@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

AbdElgleel

Last Name

Eltantawy

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

ahmee11266@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Esraa

Last Name

Zakaria

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44519, Egypt

Email

imzakarya@pharmacy.zu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

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Volume

42

Article Issue

3

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49018

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2024-03-07

Publish Date

2024-07-01

Page Start

202

Page End

208

Print ISSN

1110-1865

Online ISSN

2090-2611

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EJCM_Volume 42_Issue 3_Pages 202-208.pdf

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234

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Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine

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https://ejcm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Percentage of Smoking and Attitude towards Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Medical and Non-Medical Male Students of Zagazig University

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23 Dec 2024