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ArticleInternational journal of preventive medicine2019

A Health Education Intervention Study on Tobacco Consumption Among the Urban Slum Residents of Central India.

Anshuman Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Sanjay Agrawal, Sanjay Kumar Gupta, Shalini Sarouthia

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Article in International journal of preventive medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anshuman SharmaDepartment of Community Medicine, Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Sanjeev Kumar GuptaDepartment of Community Medicine, RKDF Medical College and RC, Jatkhedi, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Sanjay AgrawalDepartment of Community Medicine, R D Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Sanjay Kumar GuptaDepartment of Community Medicine, Peoples College of Medical Science and RC, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Shalini SarouthiaDepartment of Community Medicine, RKDF Medical College and RC, Jatkhedi, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
RKDF University · INRuxmaniben Deepchand Gardi Medical College · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTobacco is one of the world's leading avoidable causes of premature death, disease, and disability. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) survey 2020, there are about 120 million tobacco users in India, and WHO estimates that about 4.9 million die due to tobacco annually, and that by 2020 it will be the principal cause of death and disability. This study is done with objectives to access the prevalence of tobacco consumption, evaluate the impact of health education and intervention.

methodsIt was community-based health educational interventional study conducted in urban slum setting in Bhopal India, comprising 1598 subjects, and out of these 520 participants were assessed for final outcome with 3 months study duration. A predesigned, pretested questionnaire proforma was developed containing the study variables including socio-demographic, education, age, occupation, type of tobacco product consumed and so on and distributed to all study participants in pre-interventional phase and only in tobacco consumers of post-interventional phase and then was finally evaluated.

resultsThe prevalence of tobacco use was 32.50% among the tobacco user; 87% were males and rest were females. In post-interventional phase there was a significant difference (

conclusionAfter the health educational interventional motivation, majority of users are ready to quit, so we have to help them in quitting which must include the effectual intervention to control the tobacco use by making an effective strong policy by increasing their knowledge by means of IEC and health education.

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Areahealth educationinterventionpovertypoverty areaprevalenceslumstobacco producttobacco uses

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