沙特阿拉伯卡西姆地区初级卫生保健就诊者的吸烟模式。

Smoking patterns among primary health care attendees, Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia.

作者信息

Al-Haddad N S, Al-Habeeb T A, Abdelgadir M H, Al-Ghamdy Y S, Qureshi N A

机构信息

Primary Health Care, Buraidah, Al-Oassim Region, Saudi Arabia.

出版信息

East Mediterr Health J. 2003 Sep-Nov;9(5-6):911-22.

PMID:16450521

Abstract

Prevalence, sociodemographic patterns and medical co-morbidity of smoking among a cross-section of primary health care (PHC) clients in Saudi Arabia were examined. We used a 44-item semistructured questionnaire to collect data from 1752 patients at 25 randomly selected PHC centres. Percentage of smoking was 52.3%. Although 85% were adult smokers, 8.6% began smoking before age 12. Smokers gave overlapping reasons to smoke including peer pressure; non-smokers gave religious and health logics against smoking. Of all smokers, 92.8% wanted to learn cessation strategies, 11.8% were ignorant of hazards and 32.4% reported manifestations of nicotine withdrawal. Besides alcohol use (13.4%), 81.8% had co-morbid physical disease.

摘要

我们对沙特阿拉伯初级卫生保健（PHC）服务对象中的吸烟流行率、社会人口学模式及合并症进行了调查。我们使用一份包含44个条目的半结构化问卷，从25个随机选取的初级卫生保健中心的1752名患者中收集数据。吸烟率为52.3%。尽管85%为成年吸烟者，但8.6%在12岁之前就开始吸烟。吸烟者给出了重叠的吸烟原因，包括同伴压力；不吸烟者则给出了反对吸烟的宗教和健康方面的理由。在所有吸烟者中，92.8%希望了解戒烟策略，11.8%对危害一无所知，32.4%报告有尼古丁戒断症状。除饮酒（13.4%）外，81.8%患有合并身体疾病。