Karunarathne D, Ekanayake L
Community Dent Health. 2016 Mar;33(1):39-43.
To determine the prevalence of and characteristics associated with Sri Lankan adolescents' chewing of areca.
Cross-sectional descriptive study based on a self-administered questionnaire.
633, 15-year-olds in the Bandarawela education zone of Sri Lanka.
Nearly 7% of the sample were current chewers of arecanut and 1% of commercially available areca products respectively. Furthermore 42% were past areca nut chewers while 3% of the sample had previously chewed commercially available areca products. According to the Poisson regression models, males were more likely than females to be past areca nut chewers as were those having an areca nut chewer at home compared to those who did not. Sinhalese students were more likely than Tamils to be past chewers. Also current areca nut chewing was independently associated with being male, having an areca nut chewer at home, Tamil ethnicity and father's occupation.
The prevalence of current areca nut and commercially available areca product use was low among this group of adolescents.
确定斯里兰卡青少年嚼槟榔的流行率及相关特征。
基于自填问卷的横断面描述性研究。
斯里兰卡班达拉维拉教育区的633名15岁青少年。
样本中近7%的人目前嚼槟榔，1%的人使用市售槟榔产品。此外，42%的人曾嚼过槟榔，3%的样本曾嚼过市售槟榔产品。根据泊松回归模型，男性比女性更有可能曾嚼过槟榔，家中有嚼槟榔者的人比没有的人更有可能曾嚼过槟榔。僧伽罗族学生比泰米尔族学生更有可能曾嚼过槟榔。目前嚼槟榔还与男性、家中有嚼槟榔者、泰米尔族裔和父亲的职业独立相关。
在这群青少年中，目前嚼槟榔和使用市售槟榔产品的流行率较低。
