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ArticleIranian journal of public health2012

Modeling the Underlying Predicting Factors of Tobacco Smoking among Adolescents.

M Asghari Jafarabadi, H Allahverdipour, S Bashirian, A Jannati

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Article in Iranian journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M Asghari JafarabadiInjury Epidemiology and Prevention Research Center, Dept. of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
H Allahverdipour
S Bashirian
A Jannati
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWith regard to the willing and starting tobacco smoking among young people in Iran. The aim of the study was to model the underlying factors in predicting the behavior of tobacco smoking among employed youth and students in Iran.

methodsIn this analytical cross-sectional study, based on a random cluster sampling were recruited 850 high school students, employed and unemployed youth age ranged between 14 and 19 yr from Iran. The data of demographic and tobacco smoking related variables were acquired via a self-administered questionnaire. A series of univariate and multivariate logistic regressions were performed respectively for computing un-adjusted and adjusted Odds Ratios utilizing SPSS 17 software.

resultsA number of 189 persons (25.6%) were smoker in the study and the mean smoking initiation age was 13.93 (SD= 2.21). In addition, smoker friend, peer persistence, leaving home, and smoking in one and six month ago were obtained as independent predictors of tobacco smoking.

conclusionsThe education programs on resistance skills against the persistence of the peers, improvement in health programs by governmental interference and policy should be implemented.

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Employed adolescencesFactorsIranStudentsTobacco Smoking

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