tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Correlates of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in the Kurdistan region of Iraq"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Correlates of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Research Correlates of current cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in the Kurdistan region of Iraq Seter Siziya1 Adamson S Muula 2 and Emmanuel Rudatsikira3 Open Access Address University of Zambia School of Medicine Lusaka Zambia 2Department of Community Health University of Malawi Blantyre Malawi and 3Departments of Global Health Biostatistics and Epidemiology School of Public Health Loma Linda University California USA Email Seter Siziya - ssiziya@ Adamson S Muula - muula@ Emmanuel Rudatsikira - erudatsikira@ Corresponding author Published 4 December 2007 Received 4 September 2007 Conflict and Health 2007 1 13 doi 1752-1505-1-13 Accepted 4 December 2007 This article is available from http content 1 1 13 2007 Siziya et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background Many adult cigarette smokers initiated the habit as adolescents. Adolescent tobacco use may be a marker of other unhealthy behaviours. There are limited data on the prevalence and correlates of cigarette smoking among in-school adolescents in Iraq. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of and assess the socio-demographic correlates of current cigarette smoking among inschool adolescents in Kurdistan region of Iraq. Methods Secondary data analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey conducted in the region of Kurdistan Iraq in 2006. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the association between current cigarette smoking and explanatory variables. Results One thousand nine hundred eighty-nine adolescents participated in the Kurdistan-Iraq .