Panahi, Rahman, Ramazankhani, Ali, Tavousi, Mahmoud, Osmani, Fereshte, Niknami, Shamsaddin (2025). Knowledge and Attitude of Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences about Smoking in 2016. , 4(1), 51-61.
Rahman Panahi; Ali Ramazankhani; Mahmoud Tavousi; Fereshte Osmani; Shamsaddin Niknami. "Knowledge and Attitude of Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences about Smoking in 2016". , 4, 1, 2025, 51-61.
Panahi, Rahman, Ramazankhani, Ali, Tavousi, Mahmoud, Osmani, Fereshte, Niknami, Shamsaddin (2025). 'Knowledge and Attitude of Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences about Smoking in 2016', , 4(1), pp. 51-61.
Panahi, Rahman, Ramazankhani, Ali, Tavousi, Mahmoud, Osmani, Fereshte, Niknami, Shamsaddin Knowledge and Attitude of Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences about Smoking in 2016. , 2025; 4(1): 51-61.

Knowledge and Attitude of Dormitory Students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences about Smoking in 2016

Health Education and Health Promotion
Article 6, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 51-61    PDF (263.57 K)
Authors
Rahman Panahi1; Ali Ramazankhani2; Mahmoud Tavousi3; Fereshte Osmani4; Shamsaddin Niknami* 5
1Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2Professor, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3Associate Professor, Health Metrics Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
4Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistic, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
5Associate Professor , Department of Health Education & Health Promotion, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Aim: Smoking is one of the most important causes of respiratory, cardiovascular and cancers diseases. This study examined the smoking-related knowledge, attitudes and practices of dormitory students of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. The specific aim is to determine the correlation between the main variables' affect on smoking habits, knowledge and attitudes.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study conducted with descriptive and analytical approach, 340 students were selected through random cluster sampling. The participating students completed an interview measuring demographic characteristics and smoking-related knowledge, attitude and practice. Data were analyzed using Chi-square and Pearson's tests in SPSS (ver. 21).
Findings: The mean and SD of the participants was 22.93±4.05 years. Accordingly, 23% (n=78) of the subjects were current smokers and 17.1% (n=58) had experienced smoking. The knowledge of 1.8% (n=6) of the subjects was weak about smoking's health effects, 9.97% (n=332) had average and 0.3% (n=1) had good knowledge. Attitude of 8.6% (n=29) of the participants about smoking was poor, 29.5% (n=100) average and 61.9% (n=210) good. Relationship between knowledge and attitude about the harms of smoking (r=0.35, p<0.001), between knowledge and smoking (r=0.2, p<0.001), and between attitude and smoking (r=0.45, p<0.001) was significant.
Conclusion: There was a moderate level of knowledge and attitude about smoking hazards among the participants. Also the prevalence of smoking was relatively high. With regard to the statistically significant relationship between knowledge and attitude with smoking, declared health educational programs may enrich current knowledge, and promote the attitudes related to smoking risk and effects on the students' health.
Keywords
Knowledge; Attitude; practice; Smoking; Student
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