ArticleSubstance abuse2013
Why would khat chewers quit? An in-depth, qualitative study on Saudi Khat quitters.
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- The impact of khat chewing on heart activity and rehabilitation therapy from khat addiction in healthy khat chewers.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Drugs behind the veil of Islam: a view of Saudi youth.Crime, law, and social change · 2021Article
- Seven in every ten khat chewers in Gondar City had an intention to stop khat chewing: cross-sectional study using Transtheoretical Model.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Impact of khat price increases on consumption behavior - price elasticity analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2019Article
- Khat Dependency and Psychophysical Symptoms among Chewers in Jazan Region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.BioMed research international · 2016Article
- Prevalence and predictors of harmful khat use among university students in ethiopia.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2014Article
- The globalization of addiction research: capacity-building mechanisms and selected examples.Harvard review of psychiatryReview
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Abstract
backgroundKhat chewing, which has many adverse health and social consequences, is highly prevalent and socially accepted in the Jazan region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
methodsA qualitative study was conducted with 47 adult male former khat users regarding their khat initiation, continuance, and cessation, the amounts of khat they had used, and the health and social consequences of their use and cessation of use.
resultsParticipants noted a desire to show maturity, ease of availability of khat, and peer pressure as reasons for initiating khat chewing. Many noted long leisure times with little to do as a reason for continuing use. Negative consequences of khat use were seen in economic, health, familial, and sexual areas of their lives. After quitting khat use, participants saw improvements in all of these areas.
conclusionsA comprehensive community development program (CCDP) tackling, among other issues, the normalization of khat use, substantial leisure times with few positive activities, and misinformation about the "benefits" of khat use, as well as developing peer and family training programs to help prevent or stop khat use, would be useful to reduce khat chewing in this community.
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