Assessing University Students Smokers Knowledge and Behaviours’ Related Smoking

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1 Assistant lecturer in community health nursing, Faculty of nursing, Mansoura university, Egypt

2 Faculty of Nursing Mansoura University

3 Community health nursing, faculty of nursing, Mansoura university,Egypt

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Background: Smoking persists as a global health problem being one of the major risk factors to non-communicable diseases and early death particularly among youth. This study aims to assess the university student’s smoker’s knowledge and behaviours’ related smoking. Method: A cross-sectional study design was utilized throughout this study on the World Wide Web (WWW) for globalization. The researchers used convenience sampling technique to select 120 university students’ smokers. The researchers used three online self-administered questionnaires for data collection as follows: socio-demographic characteristics of students, subjective smoking behaviour, and knowledge of students regarding smoking. Results indicated that the mean age of students was 20.58±1.64 years. The males represented 100% and smoking daily with a mean number of cigarettes consumed per day was 17.4±5.51 cigarettes. Furthermore, 70.8% of students smoked their first cigarette as a sense of pleasure, peer pressure represented (68.3%), and (42.5%) tried to mimic smokers of family members. Moreover, 99.2% of the studied students had a poor score level of knowledge regarding smoking. Conclusion: The researchers concluded that the prevalence rate of smoking among university students was high and the common factors of smoking among students were tried to mimic smokers of family members and the pressure of peer smoking. In addition, most students have a poor level of knowledge regarding smoking. Accordingly, the researchers recommend an urgent need for higher education institutions to develop strategies for smoking cessation within universities. Implement educational programs to raise awareness of the smoking harms.
Keywords: tobacco smoke, young adult, smoking behavior, knowledge

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